What makes a bad word bad?

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2-01-2012 @ 2:28PM

Adam said...

I basically said the exact same thing in my comment on Fox's article, yet was shunned by the community of readers for it.

Words are words.

How you react to them, if you even choose to hear them, is up to you.

2-01-2012 @ 2:47PM

Noyou said...

Sure. Ignorance is bliss.

2-01-2012 @ 3:24PM

Adam said...

It's not being ignorant. It's choosing a life where my feelings are because of MY actions, not because of someone else.

2-01-2012 @ 10:23PM

Spellotape said...

It would be nice if every word of no meaning to you had the same lack of meaning to everyone else - unfortunately life experiences inform how people react to words. As one of the worst examples, would you honestly keep throwing the word "rape" around (which happens a lot in WoW) if someone effected by rape asked you not to? Probably not.

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