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Originally Posted by Shell
I believe you should be able to express yourself UNLESS you're offending Mothers with their children and mostly everyone around you...they can't be protected from seeing "Fuck Off" emblazened on your Mohawk...because once it's seen it's too late to do anything about it.
Life is all about LOVE. Love of yourself, love of others, love of family and friends, love of God. "Fuck Off" is about anger, hate, self-centeredness, and attitude.
You choose. It's your life that you have one chance at.
I'm sorry to be so bold here but you seem to not care about others and so i felt a need to express myself.
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It's not that I don't care about others, I don't care about others' opinions of me and I don't believe in any kind of censorship when it comes to words.
I believe that from the time one is taught what words mean they should also be taught what kind of power words realistically have: none. "Fuck" is just a word. The only reason it would offend somebody is because that person allowed it to offend them. Shielding people from these words only enables the situation. The first step towards fixing this situation, I believe, is to offend people; to put it right in their face where it can't be ignored in hope that it will cause some of them to stop and question why they are offended. Make them question why it really matters.
So, when I walk around with an offensive statement plastered across my hair, clothes, or otherwise it is not out of anger, hate, any self-centered notion, or attitude. At least not fully. It is more of a statement about the things we take as offensive and why we do.
But, I digress. This is not a thread about censorship. It is about self expression and judgment.
The first half of my previous post was simply meant to point out that the experience I have with this is on the extreme end of the spectrum, and that I know exactly what it is to be judged for the personal decisions in regards to appearance one makes.