Platypus
Lifer
- Apr 26, 2001
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Originally posted by: Throckmorton
Originally posted by: Platypus
Originally posted by: Beev
None. Period. Words are just that. Words.
I better reevaluate what I thought being human meant, if "words are just words".
People saying asinine BS like this what offends me.
The phrase I find most offending is "it's just a theory".
Asinine? Are you saying that because you don't share this viewpoint that it's immediately cast aside in favor of what you think? Interesting. :roll:
Words *are* just words, it's the INTENT of the person that is offensive. Taking offense to an ordered series of sounds is just silly. I don't feel offended every time I hear the word lovely human or queer or gay or fairy because they're just words. If someone came up to me and said, 'you are a fucking lovely human,' it's not the word 'lovely human' that I find offensive, it's the HATE and INTENT of that person that I find offensive.
You may call it splitting hairs but honestly it's how something is used that deems it offensive to me, not the words themselves. It's the tone of voice, the way it's used, the intent behind the meaning that determines that response from me. I have friends who call me 'queer' as a term of endearment, people I know for a fact have no problem with gay people or even my gay friends who say that to me. It's all about usage.
So to take offense to a word printed on a piece of paper with no intent behind it just seems asinine to me. If it offends you then that's your prerogative but accept that others are not so thin-skinned.. hell someone like myself can't afford to be thin-skinned in the world we live in.