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to: BARBARA SHAFFERMAN
from: CARL THAMES
date: 1998-04-26 22:06:00
subject: PROFANITY

BS>CT> This IS interesting.  I know people who swear like sailors yet won't
BS>CT> watch a movie with frontal nudity in them, and others who wouldn't
BS>CT> say sh*t if they had a mouthful, yet they would and probably do read
BS>CT> and watch stuff that would make a pimp blush.  Good fodder for
BS>CT> characters, though. 
BS>Perhaps we all need an outlet for our opposite natures. So, what we
BS>see/read/hear has to be different from what we do all the time. If
BS>that's so, then the current popularity of no-holds-barred prurient
BS>material has to be favorable evidence of society's high moral standards.
BS>How's that for sort of backward logic?
Any action has an equal and opposite reaction, right?  The more moral we
propose to be on the outside, the more corrupt we are on the inside, or
so it seems.  Now that I mention it, with the govt. we have now we
should be the best people on the planet, eh? 
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