PA's Profanity Filter

manofmystery wrote: I find the headbanger emoticon far more offensive than any word.  Can that be censored?

Oh, well, now we can't have any of that. After all, things were so great at the dawn of man before social hierarchy emerged. Neanderthals had it made d00d!

Edited by Deathrabbit - October 25 2011 at 20:13

The Doctor wrote: Deathrabbit wrote: Oh, well, now we can't have any of that. After all, things were so great at the dawn of man before social hierarchy emerged. Neanderthals had it made d00d! There is actually some speculation that Neanderthals may have been more peaceful and civilized than Homo Sapiens and had a more cooperative spirit.  Too bad we wiped them out.  Oh, but just to keep us on topic,

The Doctor wrote: Yes, there is some evidence to support that as well.  However, cannibalism by itself does not imply an uncivilized culture, but merely one in which meat was needed.  Just because they didn't have our modern morality, does not mean they weren't civilized.  In fact, I would say our modern morality leaves a lot to be desired (although I don't support cannibalism - I want that on the record.  ).

Eärendil wrote: The Doctor wrote: Yes, there is some evidence to support that as well.  However, cannibalism by itself does not imply an uncivilized culture, but merely one in which meat was needed.  Just because they didn't have our modern morality, does not mean they weren't civilized.  In fact, I would say our modern morality leaves a lot to be desired (although I don't support cannibalism - I want that on the record.  ).   Glad you cleared that up.  ... but scenario : You are in the Donner Party.  Everyone's doing it.  If you can still be "civilized" after eating someone else, so would you do it?

I'm not sure anyone can know what they would do in that situation unless they were actually faced with it.  Who knows what would win out in that situation, hunger or revulsion at the thought.  I can't say, can you?

That f**king Avril Lavigne is one no talent queynte.  Middle English my friends. You did read your Chaucer, did you not? You know the one, where the miller told his tale (and her face at first just ghostly turned a whiter shade of pale). Yes?

Edited by jammun - October 25 2011 at 21:59

All censored words should be converted to their binary equivalents. It is the perfect compromise.

Henry Plainview wrote: All censored words should be converted to their binary equivalents. It is the perfect compromise.

 

It can't be an accident that in whatever language you care to mention the overwhelming majority of words deemed offensive or taboo are either sexual or body waste related. Is this the legacy of the most dominant moral code that has attempted to control the developed world over the ages i.e. Christianity, or justification that Freud's theories of repression might hold a vestige of truth?. Would swear words (apart from curses or execrations) exist in societies that have always been purely secular?