who decides???
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It’s called “censorship,” and America is quickly moving toward limiting it’s own people in ways for which Americans went to war with the British in the late-1700’s.
Freedom of Speech means you can say whatever you want, regardless of how badly it offends someone else.
Often the person wishing to swear wants, at the same time, to shock, so they use words which are usually kept private.
In a way, every time a person swears, a little more dignity is lost in terms of the value and beauty of life.
Some people are into ‘effing’ every other word, but it scarcely means a thing to them, though I think it’s demeaning of them and their listeners and is unpleasant to hear. I think that it is more the spirit in which a word is said that makes it really good or bad.
This study of language and its continuously evolving state is truly the most fascinating thing to study!
i can say hey brohter to my brother and everything is fine.
If i say hey brother to an african american that i dont know
it would be offense.
not by what i said but by the intent of the way he took it.
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