They don't even 'express their differences', McGrath. I don't think they're capable of it. I don't think they understand it, or why other people argue about topics, or see them as relatively clueless when they can't. It's not something they ever learned how to do, and likely will learn. Not as long as they think the shock value scores points. Listen, the shock value, should be (one would think) nonexistant by now. Then again, I'm usually more easily bored than a lot of people. It's the attention span thing.

I'd like to have the right to use vulgar language. I save it for when I'm really pissed off, just so people can tell I'm really pissed off.

I try to tune out 'noise' when I'm talking to other people. Focusing on it, whether it's someone using profanity or 'trigger' words, mis-spelling things, using bad grammar or sentence syntax, distracts from the conversation. You start off in that direction, and people always follow. If people continuously respond to rudeness and profanity instead of discussing the topic of a thread, why even bother having topics? Every thread is a flame war simply waiting for the 'you're a poopie-head' trigger to herd people back onto the well-worn path.