Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-24011918-20131214001227/@comment-5946174-20131214230457

CalasanX wrote: The Bitter Cold wrote: Why does it matter if someone calls another person a faggot or a retard? All you're doing by making it a bannable offense is increasing the effectiveness of the insult. It's like Hermoine Granger says in Harry Potter: "Fear of the name only increases fear of the thing itself." Not that I use HP quotes as my personal philosphies or anything like that. It's not just protection of the people being insulted. The insults are inappropriate. Even in our chat. If I were to call you a cunt, that would be inappropriate. However, the chances are that no one would give a damn. The lack of regard given to the insult makes its use less common or, in any case, less common outside of comedic effect. The same will happen to words like "faggot," or "retard," provided we don't explode into a fit of rage every time someone uses them.