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> Liberal use of profanity is about freedom and tone

I've noticed many people using "freedom" as an excuse to say or do very (often intentionally) offensive things. That's not freedom, that's an abuse of freedom.



To be clear, I was using free in the sense of "unencumbered." However, since you bring up freedom of speech, I say, what use is freedom if you're not free to offend people?




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