"Banning stuff and people instead of educating"
So it's OK to post child porn if we explain it's educating people not to do it?
(, Fri 26 Jun 2020, 22:44, Share, Reply)
We are talking of speech.
And "hate speech" should be banned.
For example, promoting the idea of euthanising a group of people, such as a subset of handicap,
is criminal. Simple. Open close case.
Calling someone "retard" in the wrong context is stupid, and that people should be told why, and they should change their wording. If they chose not to, then it moves to banning/legal shit.
But the word "retard" should not be banned because it also a technical term for setting spark plugs (and other things) and if a trisomic person should chose to call me that, I would be honoured.
You can broaden our disagreement to other
offensive material, but where do we stop?
Lets argue about something specific, because
if we do not, it is Turtles all the way down.
(, Fri 26 Jun 2020, 23:55, Share, Reply)
What about 'Cunt'/’Fanny’/'Twat'?
We should probably stop using terms for female genitalia in a pejorative context, as it suggests the female reproductive system is abhorrent. But in that case, we should probably ban 'Cock'/'Dick'/'Nob', too. It wouldn't be right to suggest that the male reproductive system is somehow less worthy in that regard.
Perhaps we should just pre-emptively ban all nouns, just incase somebody weaponises the few innocuous examples we have left.
(, Sat 27 Jun 2020, 0:18, Share, Reply)
WHERE WILL IT ALL END?
Hopefully with the people expressing toxic bigotry changing their behaviour to remain accepted in civil society.
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brb homonecrobatrachophile, Sat 27 Jun 2020, 1:07,
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and some people believe their standards and values should be what's acceptable, and no other
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Sat 27 Jun 2020, 7:33,
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