-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 08 November 2003 08:12 am, Chris Carter wrote:
> There are children on this list (as well as others). As a father of 2 > girls, I don't want them reading this kind of language. Then teach your children what to say and what not to say. Don't try to enforce that on other people. Hearing a word or seeing a word will not damage them - they will be reading Huck Finn soon enough. > The community on this list really does help out! Some people get > frustrated (heh, we all do!) and use ill-sounding words to better > express their frustration, which must be respected. Others find certain > words to be unacceptable if used in public (That must also be > respected). People on this list ARE helpful. But there are rule-mongers as well. Once again, these words - are they ill-sounding to you? To him? To me? Based on whose values? If you find these words to be unacceptable in public, don't say them in public - but don't force a morality on me. I choose my own choice of words to use. Until the great censor-adepts of the list come to smite me down for protecting someone's use of a curse, I will continute to protect that choice for myself and others. You can say whatever you want. In return, I can say whatever I want. It seems fair enough to me. It's your choice whether or not you swear, and whether or not you shelter your children from it. But don't force that choice on me or others. (Filter those words from yours/their system. That's not too hard to accomplish, and you're taking responsibility for your own actions as opposed to others.) - -- Matt http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x7D81740A -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/rR6RZosHVX2BdAoRAjt8AJ9pbVz8O2VPGoBpTUH/igINKR7P/gCdG4Px Ccc6SIfxtG60NlSTGWVGf5w= =LS5G -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
