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CyberMike,
Society has rules, man. Society HAS to have rules, norms, standards... creating our own notions of right and wrong. Without rules... what do we have?
We have the jungle. *makes monkey noises*
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I'd say that words (racial slurs) are an extension of thoughts and actions.
You don't summon up racial slurs without some kind of forethought or notion about the race issue... and life decisions are based on such thoughts.
I don't want someone that uses racial slurs not because of the word, a mere arbitrary verbal symbol, but because how they think and act in society.
It may be their right to do such, but that doesn't mean I think they should get to use the same oxygen as the rest of us here on Earth who manage to get along with each other regardless of skin color.
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