05-01-2003, 07:04 PM
Trash talking is fine in games, on the condition that it is okay between two people. The problem arises when one person goes to far and upsets the other or others, not realizing that each person has a different threshold. How many times have any one of us growing up, hurt or, hurt others by what we said, and even in saying sorry didn't realize why it hurt them.(this is how bullies are born) Example: How often has Acid been a topic in forums and never realizing what he did was over the line. Bank on this, he will be okay for awhile and then still do something.(sorry acid, all I could think of at the moment.) For him the line was set by someone else.
When I was in the navy, we would be under water for 90 days and come back with the worse language(cussing like a sailor). I didn't even realize that I had fallen so low. When you tell your, from birth to death, mary loving, thought I would be a priest, never cussed in her life, catholic MOM that it was f...ing good to see her and not realize what you said, you've gone to far.
I believe the language is a product of our enviroment, and as soon as it becomes socially rejected behavior, as in not being cool anymore, it will curb or stop to most extent. There will always be those that will be different based on education or enviroment. If a president of a job place encourages it, shit will roll downhill.
When I was in the navy, we would be under water for 90 days and come back with the worse language(cussing like a sailor). I didn't even realize that I had fallen so low. When you tell your, from birth to death, mary loving, thought I would be a priest, never cussed in her life, catholic MOM that it was f...ing good to see her and not realize what you said, you've gone to far.
I believe the language is a product of our enviroment, and as soon as it becomes socially rejected behavior, as in not being cool anymore, it will curb or stop to most extent. There will always be those that will be different based on education or enviroment. If a president of a job place encourages it, shit will roll downhill.