How about giving everyone a bar of soap. When anyone offends someone,the offender has to wash his mouth out with soap[;D]
Or lets get to the point where there is a sixty second delay from when a response is posted to when it appears on the thread[;D]
The point I'm trying to make is,everyone is offended at some time or another.It's how you react to it that makes all the difference in the world.
If people are so hurt by mere words,how will they react in a physical confrontation with thier enemies.
Have we become so conditoned by the media and the rest of the liberal morons(OOPS! probably offended someone with that! hopefully nobody on this board)[:D]to be hyper-sensative that an utterence of a single word should stifle a spirited discussion? When it turns into a pissing contest an has no hope of going anywhere, yes, moderation is needed.Ether to kickstart the discussion back to it's origional direction, or to close it.
I,for one, have no problem speaking my mind, and have other speak thier mind to me. If someone says something derogotory to me during a discussion, heated or otherwise, I can let it go afterwards. For instance, most people on this board have more in common than not.
The human animal can't be civil 100% of the time. We need to blow off steam or we go "postal"(OOPS! there I go again!)