Hell and Damn

1. While they aren't incredibly religious, they are meant to wish a horrible fate upon someone. Hell (NOT used as a swear word here), after all, is meant to be torture eternal, and the d-word is also meant to wish someone would go to "that place" -- neither is something I could ever wish upon another, unless that someone were as evil as Osama Bin Laden was.

2. Teenagers shouldn't be using swear words; I've heard too much use in real life to be fine with it. Heck, I learned almost all the swear words there are to know while on a thirteen- to fifteen-year-old baseball team. The words are meant to be impolite, after all, and many teenagers don't seem to take them seriously. I'm not saying you don't -- you don't use them much, anyway -- I'm just saying what most teens are like.

3. Swear words could drive other people away from the site. For all I know we could invite someone who's very anti-swear and end up losing him or her because of this site's (albeit relatively minor) tolerance. It is a possibility...

1: Hence why if you tell someone to go to hell, or say "damn you", I'll delete the post and give you a warning for breaking the word filter rules.

2: That's a moral debate, and is open to a lot of discussion. I for one disagree. It depends on the reasoning for the curse. I am kinda neutral on the matter. I approve of using a few curses (damn and hell), but not in certain ways, and not for certain reasons.

3: I have been aware of that fact since I created this forum. Believe me, the word filter was a lot more lax back then, I've tightened it up a bit since.

So I disagree with you on the first, I'm half and half on the second, and I'm with you on the third.

That said, I'm going to make a discussion on this matter in announcements and polls; not a poll, I just want to see public opinion on this matter.

Thanks for bringing this up.

Dovydas of Gulet wrote:What the three before me said.

I disagree absolutely with all of LL's statements.

Especially the third. If someone is intolerant of tolerance, well then I'm not going to tolerate them, either. I talk what I want, and while that doesn't mean I'll go so far as to use the f word constantly, if someone doesn't like what I say out of blatant personal taste, because that's what it is, well, hell, I don't care.

Swearwords are just words. Words are just conjunctions of sounds that humans make to lie to each other more effectively.

Mesonak wrote:At the risk of sounding redundant, I agree wholeheartedly with the above. I've always felt that overreaction over minor curses (BZP) is unnecessary.

-Mesonak

Zarayna wrote:First off Dovydas, saying "damn you/them" is an open violation of the no flaming rule. Telling someone to go to hell definitely counts.

Secondly, you are being even bigger of a hypocrite, due to the countless times you say "shut up" to me.

(Also, oh shush, you)

These are Legolover-361's reasons for why he thinks damn and hell should be outlawed except for in the case of stories.

Zarayna wrote:

These are Legolover-361's reasons for why he thinks damn and hell should be outlawed except for in the case of stories.

I think I beat you to saying that.