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I think it's a bad idea to ban words. This is an adult forum. I'm very big on freedom of speech. Speech allows to better see the mentality of the people you deal with. When you start banning words and people aren't free to say what they want, how they want, then it only hides what they are, good or bad.
For example. At the office I used to work at one of the guys that I worked with seemed like a pretty good guy. We'd joke around a lot. After about a month or two, my wife at the time and him and his wife all went out to dinner. It was the first time I ever hung out with him outside of the office. It seemed about every other word that came out of his mouth was either, ******, Jew, Jap, wetback or some other racial term. It was disturbing. The hate he had for everything and the hate had for every other race was amazing. After about 15 minutes at the dinner table I had to ask him WTF was wrong with him and when did he become a racist. He looked at me kinda confused like, and said, "What? I've always hated ******s. I just can't say that at the office or I'd get fired." I told him to enjoy the dinner and left him and his wife there.
The point is that certain words you really couldn't say at the office. He seemed like a normal guy. If his write to speak his mind wasn't limited by the banned words at the office I would have saved a lot time in getting to know him. Ya, start banning words here than you're not really solving a problem, you're just avoiding them. I'd much rather know what people are thinking when they're free to speak their mind, even if it is to just see how stupid they are.
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