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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (1050201)	1/24/2018 8:27:03 AM
From: RetiredNow	Respond to of 1587524

Probably so. What I tell my kids is that, at least in business, the first person in the room to use curse words has already lost the argument. If a person can't keep his/her cool and use logic and facts to debate and persuade, then oftentimes they resort to cursing to bully and bludgeon others to their way of thinking. The calm person will most often win in such a situation, as business execs get turned off by unhinged people. I'm no saint and have done my share of cursing in RL as well as on these threads, but I grew up in an era when we were taught that it was unacceptable. I still believe it to be so, primarily because I agree with Obama's quote: "we must learn to disagree without being disagreeable." It really is the foundation of a properly functioning Democracy.