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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: goldworldnet who wrote (332071)	12/21/2002 10:46:58 AM
From: Poet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Yes, the privacy issue is thorny. When one person tells another something deeply personal in confidence, it's impossible to know what the listener will do with the information. I believe there's an oral contract not to divulge the information, (not to mention a moral one), but there are no means of recourse if it's broken. Other than forming the opinion that the individual is untrustworthy. Profanity is interesting. Personally, I mind it far less than racist or religionist (eg. anti-Semitic) speech. But you never know what's going to offend someone. For example, I know a number of men who wince at some of my more colorful conversational speech, and a number of women who don't. I think what's wise is to have the intention of not being hurtful and to have the grace to apologize when one has, even unintentionally, offended.