"Nick Sabalausky" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > > If everybody was the same, then sure, it would make perfect sense to > expect people to take responsibility for how the listener is affected. But > this is the real world, and everyone is not remotely the same, so in most > cases such a convention would be tricky at best, and in the case of > mass-media, it's nothing short of a complete and total impossibility. >
Plus, there's also the issue that if the public, in general, really was so offended by such profanity in mass-media, such content would be very short-lived instead of becoming as prolific as it is today.
