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Old 09-05-2007, 11:23 PM
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Originally Posted by noneof yourbusiness View Post
It si bullshit. If you cant take the heat get out the kitchen. Having to tip toe through s symantic minefield squleches thoughts and therefore ideas. And we need people to be able to think freely to come up with solutions. Sure that means ...mean people will say shit. But in a country with the highest crime rate in the civlised world and some bombing the shit out of two countries and its residents. Focusing on how might get insulted is pretty trivial.
It's not about not thinking freely, or feeling free to express your thoughts.

It's about doing that in a way that is, using another word, diplomatic.

or,

We can continue to say fuck you if you don't agree, which gets a conversation nowhere...and generates no goodwill.
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