The mistake you make is that you expect banning these specific words will satisfy their problem.
Time and time again this has been shown to be wrong. There is not some objective wrong being righted, there is just a subjective irritation being magnified because it makes people feel self important to have a pet issue they can parade around for pity and to gloat when they get their way.
Listening to people means listening to everyone, and that includes all the ones who have learned it's better to shut up lest they become the target of these moral bullies. Especially because you actually need to make an effort to hear them, as opposed to those 'victims' with suspiciously loud and wide reach.
I do understand it. That's why
I say no.
But take your own advice: when people say these neo-puritans bother them, and that the fix costs as little as just saying no to a handful of busybodies ruining it for everyone, why not listen to _them_ and fix it?
See, your justification is not a justification at all. It's just a rationalization, based on a preconception of what kind of offense, taken by what kind of person, is valid in the first place.
Time and time again this has been shown to be wrong. There is not some objective wrong being righted, there is just a subjective irritation being magnified because it makes people feel self important to have a pet issue they can parade around for pity and to gloat when they get their way.
Listening to people means listening to everyone, and that includes all the ones who have learned it's better to shut up lest they become the target of these moral bullies. Especially because you actually need to make an effort to hear them, as opposed to those 'victims' with suspiciously loud and wide reach.
I do understand it. That's why I say no.
But take your own advice: when people say these neo-puritans bother them, and that the fix costs as little as just saying no to a handful of busybodies ruining it for everyone, why not listen to _them_ and fix it?
See, your justification is not a justification at all. It's just a rationalization, based on a preconception of what kind of offense, taken by what kind of person, is valid in the first place.