[Sonart]

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Human beings are social animals... we survive by pursuing mutually advantageous goals through cooperation. "Morals" are those rules we follow to try to ensure harmony and cooperation within the group. We don't harm or kill each other without really, really good reasons. We don't lie and deceive each other. We don't steal things from each other. We have civil laws to enforce the moral ones.

Below that we have rules governing conduct that doesn't rise to the level of immorality, but remain important if we're to live in harmony and cooperation with each other. We call it common courtesy, rules of civil conduct meant to grease the wheels of living in a crowded, complex civilization. And the more crowded and complex civilization gets, the more we need civility. Yet it appears to me that the more crowded and complex our civilization has become, the less civil we've become, leading to a balkanized society that can't stand each other and has no way of communicating without antogonizing and alienating each other.

I don't see cussing and civility as the exact same thing.... one can cuss without it being aimed an someone ...which I why I think this law is a tad silly. But I don't see the goal... trying to bring back manners and common courtesy ...as a bad thing at all. I'm just not sure it's something one can legislate.

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