Mon 8 Dec, 2003 07:18 pm - Hello Xifar and welcome to the forum. You have raised a number of issues and I will attempt to address them.
The first is the evolution of speech. What was shocking no longer is. True enough... (view)
Sun 7 Dec, 2003 06:55 pm - laws or no laws
Drom et reve & group,
You are quite correct that laws or rules should reflect the common values. If the majority of people are in agreement with Phoenix that the use of... (view)
Wed 3 Dec, 2003 01:02 pm - Drom et reve,
My inclusion of broadcasting expletives with other anti-social behaviors is not to equate them, but instead to relate them. I would suggest that the responsibility for acceptable... (view)
Wed 3 Dec, 2003 11:10 am - Phoenix & group,
At the risk of broadening the discussion I will bring up a wider variety of behaviors. As you know, there are laws against public lewdness, nudity, public drunkenness,... (view)
Tue 2 Dec, 2003 06:14 am - a proposal
Drom et reve & group, I am not suggesting that profanity be entirely censured in all places, only in the public broadcast media where it would be applicable to script writers and... (view)
Mon 1 Dec, 2003 07:46 pm - Mr. Stillwater, The problem is with the FCC's definition. IF we were to have put Bono into a time machine and sent him back to the sixties, he would never have given the slightest... (view)
Mon 1 Dec, 2003 07:11 pm - censorship
Ladies and Gentlemen, let me propose a radical idea. I suggest that it is possible to fully express your thoughts without using any profanity thereby bypassing any possible censorship... (view)
Mon 1 Dec, 2003 06:09 pm - Re: truth
[quote="JLNobody"] But if I have any sense of mystical/existential insight I believe it really began to develop when I gave up on focused approaches (either counting or just... (view)
Sun 30 Nov, 2003 09:05 pm - Phoenix,
In an ideal world, the government's function would limited to things like printing currency and establishing mundane standards such as traffic rules and the like. But we are not... (view)