Posted by special_k on March 20, 2006, at 4:18:22
In reply to Re: am i allowed to say..., posted by Dr. Bob on March 20, 2006, at 2:21:18
> > I think you're perfectly ok saying that you endorse laws prohibiting the torture of small children. Or that you do not endorse torturing small children. Or that it makes you very angry when small children are tortured. Or that you are sure that most people would not endorse torturing small children.
> Yes, or that you believe it would be immoral for you yourself to do whatever.
okay...
not 'i am opposed to torturing...'
;-)
maybe... we could compile a list of accepted phrasings... kind of like how you have eg's of civility phrasings more generally... maybe we could do something with the politics ones?
like how there is for faith.
so when people are compiling their posts... they can refer to the list for phrasings and phrasings variations that are okay?
might help things along rather...
and as for the torturing small kids for fun eg... that is a good one to use because it really is (to the best of my knowledge) the closest thing to universal you will find.
(apparantly there is a tribe where incest is permitted. the interesting thing about that is that the tribe is so small that if incest was prohibited... the whole tribe would have died out long ago.)
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