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Re: Swearing?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date: 
Thu, 6 Jan 2000 14:28:12 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal writes:
> > Christopher Lannan wrote:
> > I guess my point here is that words like "obscene" "pornography" and
> > "decent" say more about the speaker than the thing the speaker is describing.
> 
> I'm not so sure (see my post above).  Can't I come up with an idea so obscene
> that every normal, decent human being will say, "That's sick!"

  But this, too, is circular, since your question implies that a human being
who doesn't say "That's sick!" is not normal and decent.

     Dave!



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  Re: Swearing?
 
(...) I'm not so sure (see my post above). Can't I come up with an idea so obscene that every normal, decent human being will say, "That's sick!" -John (...) (27 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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