Posted by Racer on May 31, 2004, at 9:58:04
In reply to Re: withdrawal. *severe use of F-word* plz read, reply, posted by Zena on May 31, 2004, at 9:31:43
While I think that the offensive word could have been avoided, at least the poster warned us that it was present. What's more, that's a kid in an enormous amount of pain. He's begging for help, anywhere he can find it, and he's using the only outlet he knows to express his despair. Personally, while I don't tend to use that language myself, if I think about it at all I'm just sad that high school graduates are so ignorant of the language these days they fall back on the f word because of their paucity of alternatives to express amorphous concepts.
Again, the language may not be acceptable, but I hope I'm not the only one who read and responded to his pain, rather than his choice of words.
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