Reply #76: Hi omega, I appreciate the reply

[kdpeters]

Since I've been on DU, I've had many challenges to my notions of what insults can be contained to its intended target and which cause greater damage to unintended, and undeserving bystanders. I've come to the conclusion that an insult is never worth hurting someone else, and that no one has the right to dismiss the feelings of another, especially in defense of a cheap insult. It seems so simple, I look back in disbelief that I had to put so much thought into it. But the time was right to read this post and see how these slurs can be as hostile as you describe.

That said, I'd ask you to reconsider "jesus fucking christ" as an expletive.

Karl