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Kyuubi4269 posted...

Again, absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence.

And the family actually got killed by ninja.

Kyuubi4269 posted...

moral of the story, don't make assertions without evidence of any kind.

Yet you're doing the exact same thing. For instance, you're assuming that the TC is telling the truth and that the entire event wasn't just made up. Or that it didn't happen in a different way to what he said.

Those are not unreasonable assumptions, but they are still assumptions. You have no objective evidence for them, yet you're fine with using them anyways.

Kyuubi4269 posted...

You can't change the deal then say the other person broke it lol

You're sure loling a lot in this topic. You ever notice that? Are you not sure of your points or something?

Anyways, I didn't break the deal. I literally invited you to go ahead and do it.

Kyuubi4269 posted...

You see, in the real world context matters, in fact you smeared your examples with context but don't see how that isn't apples for apples.

Of course context matters. That's the whole point. If this guy had been, say, at his job on a construction site somewhere and done the same thing, it wouldn't have been a problem and unless he had some particularly devout co-workers, I doubt anyone would have objected to it.

It's not that swearing is objectively evil and never allowed, it's that the context of what he did - swearing in front of some young kids - was bad.

Kyuubi4269 posted...

Tell that to Big Bang Theory tossing out bitches on breakfast TV.

I've never seen Big Bang Theory, but I'm pretty sure it's not a kid's show. That and "bitch" generally isn't seen as quite as serious of a swear as "fuck" (even GTA didn't put an F-bomb in their games until San Andreas).

Kyuubi4269 posted...

Or perhaps TV is held to a higher standard than an idiot in a supermarket?

Again, why? If it's totally OK for kids to hear swearing, why is not swearing considered "a higher standard"? That's like saying that politicians shouldn't eat papayas because they're being held to a higher standard - if eating papayas is OK, there's no reason why anyone should be barred from doing it.

Kyuubi4269 posted...

Unless you follow someone else's style guide, it's your decisions.

If it's a style guide you came up with, it's not a "generally accepted" style guide, unless you happen to be one of a handful of people on the planet creating widely followed style guides.

My occupation has me doing a lot of report-writing, so working to various style guides is something I'm intimately familiar with.
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