Lou's answer to the offensive language

Posted by lou pilder on April 3, 2002, at 20:36:48

In reply to Re: offensiveness, posted by Mitchell on April 3, 2002, at 18:37:22

Friends;
Patric Henry said in 1775, "--- in proportion to the magnitude of the subject ought to be the freedom of the debate."
Now I believe that anything that is said on this board is of the utmost magnitude. The people here are desparate for freedom from their afflictions. They are desparate for freedom from their drugs that they are addicted to. They are desparate for someone to listen to them and be freed from their isolation.. They are desparate to save their lives. What could be more in magnitude than that?
Now I believe that all people here have afflictions. Some of these afflictions cause them to use sware words. They use them not to offend anyone , but they use them because their affliction is the cause of their swareing.
I had a student that swore in school and the Principal was moving to expell him. Because of his swaring, it was discovered that he had Tourett's syndrome. His swaring enabled him to get treatment for his affliction and he was not expelled.
Now I believe that there are people here with greater afflictions than that and I know that their swareing is not any attempt to offend others, but part of their afffliction. I find no fault with them.
Now in defense of Dr. Bob, he has to be the exempler and point out what is civil on this board,just as I , when I was a teacher, had to be the exempler and admonish those that broke the school rules. But just as the student with Tourett's should not have been expelled, I believe that our swarers should not be expelled either. When the student swore in class, I just remined the other students that he could not controll his swareing and we all accepted his swareing as a ramafication of his affliction.
In the case at hand here, my solution would be to allow the swarer to continue to post, but that the language is not endorsed by the administration and "parental descretion is advised."
Lou

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