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This thread seems like it's JinnKai's campaign for free expression vs. everybody else's campaign for civility and politeness. It reminds of when Noam Chomsky sided with a French author who claimed the holocaust didn't happen, and the offending book was subsequently removed from press. Chomsky wasn't defending the author's ideals - on the contrary, Chomsky believes very much in the events of the holocaust - but people quickly ran stories of him being a neo-Nazi, anti-Semetic etc. They didn't understand that he was simply defending the man's right to freedom of speech, regardless of the content of the message.
At what point is one freedom sacrificed for another? It's difficult to say that one is more fundamental than the other, especially when considering something as seemingly fickle as mono-syllabic words. It's a very tricky debate and I'm sure it will never be satisfyingly resolved.
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