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Re: At Competition
MY personal opinion on the matter is that though profanity shouldn't just be shouted out left and right, you can't really fault someone for letting one loose when they've just found out their robot exploded and they have to build it from scratch again, or some such thing(you get the idea). I try not to swear, and though I sometimes do I usually say it quietly to myself rather than shouting it out. In the heat of competition, it is somewhat therapeutic to curse "ye robot gods".
One thing we should remember is that words are just that, words. They only have the meaning we give to them. Profanity is only profane because we agree it is so. It has no inherent negative meaning. The only time I see it as being 100% wrong all the time is when it is directed at someone else. I NEVER swear at someone else. At the robot? At myself? Certainly, but never at someone else.
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