Re: [GZG] META strong and objectionable discourse was: Interesting mercenary idea

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 2:33 PM, Ryan Fisk <ryan.fisk@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:22 AM, Ryan Gill <rmgill@mindspring.com>
wrote:
>
>> ... He was speaking coldly, and directly. If we had
>> more of that we'd have fewer problems in this world.
>
> "Moving parts in rubbing contact require lubrication to avoid
> excessive wear. Honorifics and formal politeness provide lubrication
> where people rub together. Often the very young, the untraveled, the
> naive, the unsophisticated deplore these formalities as "empty,"
> "meaningless," or "dishonest," and scorn to use them. No matter how
> "pure" their motives, they thereby throw sand into machinery that does
> not work too well at best."

I deliberately used three offensive terms.

"child prostitution"
If you know a more polite way to describe child prostitution that
doesn't utterly avoid the topic, please do inform.

"thug"
If you know a more polite way to describe a member of a
pseudo-military band of semi-organized bandits from the Third World,
please do inform.

"politically correct jackass"
If you know a more polite way to describe the sort of idiot who was
drinking toasts with Ratko Mladic while his men were raping and
murdering unarmed and defenseless people, and you CHOOSE TO USE IT,
you are contributing to the problem I'm complaining of, which is that
this world is desperately short of good men who are not so afraid of
being considered judgmental that they are willing to look evil in the
face and either explain it away or apologize for it.

John
-- 
"Thousands of Sarmatians, Thousands of Franks, we've slain them again
and again.  We're looking for thousands of Persians."
--Vita Aureliani

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