Should It Be Illegal To Swear In Public?

Lol! Thanks for the laugh .... now it's time for bed - G'nite!

 

Yeah, but HB, you aren't a scientist and only speak from your experiences and opinions. I would trust a scientist over an average person...although I do agree that some scientific studies seem rather stupid.

 

...and drugs, drugs do a fine job too. Might still make you cuss though, or not. In case of childbirth, I hear epidurals work wonders.
I am not for cussing, never do, and I won't allow it in our home. When out in public, its free speech, and sadly, people make use of it even though the English language gives us every tool needed to express ourselves without.
Gotta pick your battles, can't win them all.

 

Didn't you start a thread about banning certian types of speech in public that you don't like? How are you any different from those who want to ban cussing in public?

 

That makes one of us.

You don't know what you're talking about.

Spoken with all the wisdom that could be expected from someone who has never thought to question why people swear when they have minor accidents.

Actually it only makes the pain worse, because of what it does to your soul.

When I was like ten years old, I banged my kneecap against a rock, and something didn't quite say to me, "Don't judge the pain." Ever since then I've looked at physical pain as something like a dashboard warning light, i.e., nothing to get upset about.

 

Good point... I seem to remember something about wanting to ban religious speech in public...

 

There can be a need for one, but not the other.

Umm, what?

 

Wow, that's sick. I've thought highly of a lot of Australia's policies, overlooking their terrible gun laws, but this is just wrong. As far as I know, the Australian constitution doesn't list rights of the citizens -- does it?

 

LOL ... "terrible".

Our gun laws are the only decent thing Howard introduced.

"The risk of dying by gunshot has halved since Australia destroyed 700,000 privately owned firearms, according to a new study published today in the international research journal, Injury Prevention."

"From 1996 to 2003, the total number of gun deaths each year fell from 521 to 289 ... "

http://sydney.edu.au/medicine/news/news/2006/Dec/061214.php

What a "terrible" result.

 

The gun laws are actually a good thing. As for rights, we have none. The government spends its time deciding which of our rights to take away next time.

 

Yes, and that essay includes suicides.

I like debating gun laws, but that's a topic for another thread -- I didn't mean to provoke anyone.

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_tot_cri_vic-crime-total-victims

 

Since you're not interested in the answer, I won't provide it.

 

Push back... Let them know you're there... Organize. Call Obama for detailed instructions. Its all he knows, so he should be of some help.

 

it is a good law some civility is in order during these times and this country is moving towards progress.

free speech should only be applied to opinions not vulgar language.

 

What makes swears offensive?

 

Is this serious? What the holy hell? Who is to say what is and isn't vulgar? This is beyond nanny-statism, it is totalitarianism. They would never allow something like this in Europe or NA.

 

You stupid looking (*)(*)(*)(*), go and get (*)(*)(*)(*)ed, (*)(*)(*)(*) head......

Pretty easy to determine vulgar

I don't agree with this. That said swearing is just becoming too common, too loud and too...i don't give a (*)(*)(*)(*) who i upset.

 

This law is perfectly acceptable for freedom hating countries like Australia, I support this measure for them to abide by.

 

As much as I hate to hear cussin' in public, I don't want to live in a country that's totalitarian about speech. Ya take the good with the bad-

 

Sometimes I wonder. What will they ban next?

 

Tell me about it, Mak. What has happened to parenting? When I was a kid, every mom and dad in the neighborhood was your proxy mom and dad. The parents looked out for each other because they were all PARENTS.

To this day, I treat my kids' friends like my own. If they get outta line, all I have to do is give them the "mommy look" and if that isn't enough, I tell them what for.

All I get back is "yes ma'am".

 

This is pure insanity.

 

Parents aren't parents these days, though. They prefer to let their brats run amok and prefer other people to babysit.

 

Just another way for the government to take over another part of parenting.

 

In other news, Queensland is also turning into a nanny state. They are banning hoodies in certain public places. Imagine, telling people what kind of clothes they can wear!