Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-27170788-20160419032145/@comment-26347028-20160425193423

JayZX535 wrote: I'm not just asking for my sake. There are others out there like me who are offended by this, so I'm asking for all of our sakes. And yeah, you know what? Most of what goes on in this world offends me. And most of the time I can do very little about it. So when I have the chance to potentially influence something for the better, I'm choosing to take it.

I do respect your views. I'm not asking for you to change anything about how you personally think. But please do think about this. If someone's language offended me and I asked them politely to please curb it because it's offending me, a way to show respect would be to show deference to someone who has a more restrictive standard than your own. But it doesn't work in quite the same manner the other way around. My not swearing isn't likely to offend anyone. I've never heard anyone ask someone to add more harsh language into their vocabulary. It's just not something you hear. I'm not asking for any more rights than you. I'm just asking for equal respect for those with differing standards. I'm asking that the mod team not only respect those who don't care about the type of language that's used in the mod, but that they also care about those who do. Sure there are others, but if we want to play the card of "more people are affected" to try and censor this, nothing comes close to the amount of people doing said thing you take offense at. Thus, it is not the fault of the majority for what they do, it is the fault of the minority for the fact they take offense.

You're not asking me to change my thoughts, but what you are doing is asking me to change how I act. Sure, a way of showing respect would be to lower the amount of language deemed obscene. But, I would gauge one of my most used words to be either "bloody" or "shite". Now, these are well above what you deem inappropriate. And it begs the question; would this end? If we set a precedent for censorship, where does this lead? All we can know for certain is nowhere good.

"I'm not asking for any more rights than you." Which one of us was it asking the other to censor their words, because they were being offended - when the one offended was in a rather small minority.

"I'm just asking for equal respect for those with differing standards." I respect everyone equally, but when you ask me to lower my vocabulary by half because it's offending you, I probably won't. And nor will most people. Life is harsh, that's just something we deal with.

"I'm asking that the mod team not only respect those who don't care about the type of language that's used in the mod, but that they also care about those who do." In effect, you're technically asking them to disrespect those who are liberal in their use, because there are no longer any of the words they use. An extremely minor slight, indeed, but still one nevertheless. And, for what? The small minority that are feeling anger at the people who say things they don't want them to? Now what does that remind me of? Oh yes, North Korea. I'm not saying that's by any means what you are, but you are certainly seemingly starting to step up to the mark with your current propositions of quite major censorship.