Personally I feel that people who have a problem with certain words deserve worse then to be insulted. People who are too caught up in themselves get pissed off when somebody calls something "gay" or tells them to stop being a "jew", but the thing is the person who said those things is just talking, you can ignore him, listen to him, care or not care; that's all up to you. I think it's halarious that people try to ban words or don't participate in something because of the way other participants speak, you're only punishing yourself.
This sort of thing really reminds me of the episode of South Park where Chef tried to get the town flag changed because he claimed it was racist(It showed 3 white stick figures hanging a black stick figure), and the kids in South Park couldn't see what was wrong because they didn't see it as black people and white people, they just saw people.
Humans get offended at lots of things, for lots of diffrent reasons; to expect the speaker to subscribe to your personal views of what you can and can't say is rediculous; besides it's Blizzard's game they should be allowed to do what they want. Keep in mind they are losing money each time they ban somebody, this is not in the intrest of a company; they may be inconsistant, but the only reason they would ban somebody is if they think it makes their product(game expiriences) better.
Does the idea make you uncomfortable? It should. It makes me uncomfortable writing about it. But if using "gay" in a derogatory manner doesn't make you just as uncomfortable then you've got a problem.
No word makes me uncofortable because I don't care about anything anybody else has to say until they prove to me that there is a reason I should care. Using the word "gay" in any manner dosn't make me uncomfortable because I am not so stupid that I confuse insults with injury.
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I agree however I prefer to keep all the files in one folder named "$artist - $title.mp3". Am I the only one who dosen't care about album names.
Personally I feel that people who have a problem with certain words deserve worse then to be insulted. People who are too caught up in themselves get pissed off when somebody calls something "gay" or tells them to stop being a "jew", but the thing is the person who said those things is just talking, you can ignore him, listen to him, care or not care; that's all up to you. I think it's halarious that people try to ban words or don't participate in something because of the way other participants speak, you're only punishing yourself. This sort of thing really reminds me of the episode of South Park where Chef tried to get the town flag changed because he claimed it was racist(It showed 3 white stick figures hanging a black stick figure), and the kids in South Park couldn't see what was wrong because they didn't see it as black people and white people, they just saw people. Humans get offended at lots of things, for lots of diffrent reasons; to expect the speaker to subscribe to your personal views of what you can and can't say is rediculous; besides it's Blizzard's game they should be allowed to do what they want. Keep in mind they are losing money each time they ban somebody, this is not in the intrest of a company; they may be inconsistant, but the only reason they would ban somebody is if they think it makes their product(game expiriences) better. Does the idea make you uncomfortable? It should. It makes me uncomfortable writing about it. But if using "gay" in a derogatory manner doesn't make you just as uncomfortable then you've got a problem. No word makes me uncofortable because I don't care about anything anybody else has to say until they prove to me that there is a reason I should care. Using the word "gay" in any manner dosn't make me uncomfortable because I am not so stupid that I confuse insults with injury.