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Can a word be immoral?
Well, if you really want to pick nits, you could argue that a word cannot be any concept. It's a word... nothing more and nothing less. However, even a single word can represent an immoral concept.

... should a government-chosen domain registry be allowed to enforce their own moral code on the public.
A government should create a policy which clearly defines what is morally acceptible for it's people. How to do this is far beyond me. If individuals at the ".ie omain Registry" are coming up with their own definitions of what is acceptible, in the absence of clear policy, I would say that they are wrong. However, the blame falls on the government for creating a set of rules without a definition of terms. In the US, the principle of "separation of church and state" forces our moral baseline to be very basic... in spite of our glorious leader's perceived religious bias.

I am a Catholic American living in a country with an Islamic government (Malaysia). I suppose that gives me a unique perspective. I see examples of a similar problem in censorship of the media. It is common knowledge that words that are contrary to public policy or morally unacceptible will not be allowed in any media. The problem is the same: Neither the public policy, nor what the government deems morally unacceptible is clearly defined. As a result, I suppose it's left up to the people in charge of the TV/radio station, newspaper, magazine, etc... Because there are no clear rules, every offensive word makes it through occasionally. Also because of the lack of clear rules, many words that are clearly not offensive and a few that are just confusing are censored. Occasionally, the name Jesus is also censored. I suppose this is the religious bias of the person employed to censor the media.

Malaysia _claims_ to have freedom of religion. Their constitution even guarantees it, though there are some problems.

For the record, I disagree with _government_ censorship in almost every form.

By the way, I've just learned that the domain "porn.us" is available... "Offer $5 000 000.00 or more and your offer will be accepted."... quite a bargain, dontcha think :)

-- Ghodmode

Reason number six, actually.

> No, because he knew the Japanese were
> going to attack from intelligence reports
> months in advance

You mean like the report that Bush got (and probably ignored, and went on holidays as usual) a couple of months before 9/11, titled "Al Qaeda determined to strike inside the US", and which specifically mentioned hijacking planes?

Quite simply too stupid to be president.

Right here...

(I guess I WASN'T the only paranoid conspiracy-theory whacko who had this sort of thought drift through his/her/its brain...)

no, just Too stupid to be President.

Your sig: "It was as if Bin Laden were engaging in long range mind control of George Bush, chanting "you must invade Iraq""

You might like this.

Top 11 reasons Dubya's height seems to change from photo to photo

I could be wrong, but who else thinks that pushing around the entire right half of a keyboard is inviting carpal tunnel syndrome?

And yeah, you will not be using this for Quake any time soon.

I just love our President - he's so not bright.