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Who said 'r-pe', or anything even remotely close?Sorry, but I'm not buying that "r-pe" would somehow be less offensive or humiliating to a rape victim than "rape."
Regarding euphemisms, I share George's sentiments:
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Who said 'r-pe', or anything even remotely close?Sorry, but I'm not buying that "r-pe" would somehow be less offensive or humiliating to a rape victim than "rape."
Regarding euphemisms, I share George's sentiments:
I don't know why it is, but I just don't tend to swear very much. If I do, every friend I have reacts with huge shock, because coming from me, it's just completely surprising.
And maybe, I haven't really thought about it, that might be one of the reasons I actually don't swear -- so that if I do, you know without further clues that I'm really angry.
Who said 'r-pe', or anything even remotely close?
Another thread with the same title asks if watching pornography is a sin. This isn't really about that.
What I found curious was the author did not type out the word (allowing for some fun interpretation on my part), and instead typed p-graphy.
The word "pornography" isn't a profanity, and certainly isn't in our language filter. It's just a word to describe a thing.
Which leads my to my question. Is typing out a word that suggests something you consider morally or ethically questionable a sin?
Maybe it comes down to our intention of the words we use?
Is words in themselves a sin? Or the meaning we put behind those words when we use it.
I have the same view as you on this.I believe that is so. I hear people say the name Jesus Christ as emphasis and some think that is taking the name in vain. I believe that would be so if the person were actually taking the name instead of just spouting it. I do have issues with Jesus mother ****ing Christ, since that is blasphemy. Looks like I found a banned word, lol.
Take ***** for example. It is a dog that gets pregnant without the owners permission.
That's basically the question asked in the OP. Is use of certain words, such as pornography, even when they aren't a profanity, a sin? If so, why? Is this based on any scripture?
Not necessarily.The filter catches just about everything unless one is trying to circumvent the filter intentionally. If "pornography" was a flagged word, it would appear as "***********" when typed.
Is this a very clever piece of irony, I can't tell?I believe not. Take ***** for example. It is a dog that gets pregnant without the owners permission. That happened to our dog but it wasn't her fault. Who knew a great dane could leap over a seven foot fence?
I think blasphemy is a victimless crime.I believe that is so. I hear people say the name Jesus Christ as emphasis and some think that is taking the name in vain. I believe that would be so if the person were actually taking the name instead of just spouting it. I do have issues with Jesus mother ****ing Christ, since that is blasphemy. Looks like I found a banned word, lol.
I believe pornography could be considered profane.
I think blasphemy is a victimless crime.
The need for discretion in any manner possible. I don't believe that the OP was isolating the issue to specifically misspelling, or cryptically writing a word. It was about not using the actual word in one manner or another. You asked the question: is saying or spelling the entire word a sin, I'm saying that any deferral is preferred whether a cryptic spelling or a euphemism.You used rape as an example for the need to censor one's vocabulary. The only censorship we were discussing in this thread was dropping letters from words and replacing them with symbols.
If your rape example wasn't intended to make a point that censoring words by replacing with symbols somehow makes that word less offensive, what was the purpose of this example you presented in response to my OP?
Another thread with the same title asks if watching pornography is a sin. This isn't really about that.
What I found curious was the author did not type out the word (allowing for some fun interpretation on my part), and instead typed p-graphy.
The word "pornography" isn't a profanity, and certainly isn't in our language filter. It's just a word to describe a thing.
Which leads my to my question. Is typing out a word that suggests something you consider morally or ethically questionable a sin?
We were taught that sin 'is in the will'. If you believe it is sinful to use a word and you use that word,it is sinful. The inverse is; you don't believe it is sinful and you use that word it is not a sin.That's basically the question asked in the OP. Is use of certain words, such as pornography, even when they aren't a profanity, a sin? If so, why? Is this based on any scripture?
I think blasphemy is a victimless crime.
If you blaspheme God you may be offending theists even if you do not believe in a God. So the victim would be the theist.
That would be a different question than the one about whether there should be a law against blasphemy in a secular society.
We are entitled to give offense as much as we like, but there is a victim usually.
Does the freedom of speech goes the other way around too? That any theist has freedom to express their views and belief both in God and about those who ridicule and mocking God? Or should a theist be tied and gaged in their free speech?Well while I don't go out of my way to offend, I also believe in freedom of speech and expression as a vital part of any free society, and theists like everybody else, are entitled to be offended, but taking offence doesn't grant anyone anything.
In this case I think their offence isn't real, since I don't believe in any deity, and of course if one existed it can demonstrably fend for itself. I believe as I said in free speech and freedom of expression, it is the price we sometimes pay for living in a free society that we must sometimes here things we don't like, or even find morally repugnant. Of course there are sometimes consequences to that freedom of expression, defamation, or open discrimination are rightly prohibited by laws, but a belief can never be ringfenced from scrutiny or criticism.
Well while I don't go out of my way to offend, I also believe in freedom of speech and expression as a vital part of any free society, and theists like everybody else, are entitled to be offended, but taking offence doesn't grant anyone anything.
In this case I think their offence isn't real, since I don't believe in any deity, and of course if one existed it can demonstrably fend for itself. I believe as I said in free speech and freedom of expression, it is the price we sometimes pay for living in a free society that we must sometimes here things we don't like, or even find morally repugnant. Of course there are sometimes consequences to that freedom of expression, defamation, or open discrimination are rightly prohibited by laws, but a belief can never be ringfenced from scrutiny or criticism.