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What is the purpose of half-heartedly censoring the word "fuckwits", when it is immediately obvious to everyone what you are saying?
- HN doesn't ban users, or stop comments from being posted if they contain the word fuck.
- If you have moral objections to saying/writing fuck, then why even use it in the first place? Why not say something else?
- You are not sparing anyone else from the word, because we are all filling in the blanks automatically even if we don't want to.
So please tell me why you did it. I cannot think of a reason.
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What is the purpose of half-heartedly censoring the word "fuckwits", when it is immediately obvious to everyone what you are saying?
- HN doesn't ban users, or stop comments from being posted if they contain the word fuck.
- If you have moral objections to saying/writing fuck, then why even use it in the first place? Why not say something else?
- You are not sparing anyone else from the word, because we are all filling in the blanks automatically even if we don't want to.
So please tell me why you did it. I cannot think of a reason.