Submitted by: Submitted by docteurlucson10
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Date Submitted: 01/28/2014 09:12 AM
Words are very powerful, and sometimes the words we use offended people. Freedom of speech is highly valued but what happens when your freedom becomes hurtful or disrespectful to someone else? There are so many different kinds of people and different things that offend each person. In this day where we are more inclined to say whatever we want, we see more and more offense being taken to the words that get said. It's hard to understand why certain words can be insulting to someone when it may not seem that way to you. We have to ask ourselves, why do we care what other people say and should we censer everything that goes into the public just so people don't get offended? Personally I believe that the censoring of words these days is somewhat extreme. I understand that certain groups could be offended by such words but why should everyone else not get the original words. In the end it is actually making everyone identical and causing misguided equality. For example, if we are trying to tell of a horrible time in history but we can only use words that are "politically correct," it's much harder to give feeling and sympathy to the story. I am a strong believer in being able to say whatever I want to say. I think that if you don't say what you want, then you have no personality and you can't stand for what you believe in. Today racist language have been a major effect around us, in fact people who used racist, sexiest and ablest language should considered to use the word correctly. For example, many people believe that feminists are man haters but almost all feminists would claim that false, because men are stronger and used word that discriminated other people. Any language you speak we speak to each other might offended other because we really don’t know how the person really feels or act when we’re speak. I believe that morality is something that you hopefully are exposed to and raised with as a young child. At a certain point or time in everyone's life they have...