J. Croft, you posted Imagrunt's PM to you, so...

If a fellow patriot came into my home and began using foul language, I would ask him to stop using foul language. If he refused to stop, I would politely ask him to leave. If he refused to leave, I would use force to remove him.

It has nothing to do with his views or his patriotism. It has to do with me wanting to maintain a particular kind of environment in my home.

As I understand it, AWRM is not equivalent to a street corner outside a convenience store where there are no rules. It is a privately owned space on the Web. The owners of this privately owned Web space have, whether for good or for ill, decided that the use of foul language in the discussions on this site adversely affect our image.

What is so difficult about using different words or omitting the offensive words when you post here? Is it really such an imposition? I honestly don't get it. You're coming into their "house", you're violating their rules, and you're laying down the law for them, forcefully telling them to submit to as if you own this space. There are a number of choice words to describe that kind of behavior.

Aren't we already too much divided against one another to let something as insignificant as this get us riled up?

What's really at stake in your view, and is this, in your view, a my-way-or-the-highway issue?