Can you delete offensive posts?

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Like the b word...personally I get really offended over that word.

This sort of vicious personal attack is completely counterproductive. If you've been as mistreated in the past as you claim, one would think it should make you more understanding, rather than less so.

True maturity is the realization that maintaining a hateful attitude only makes you into the very type of person who abused you. Being angry and mean is easy. THAT is weakness. Do you think perpetuating that anger and belligerence makes you stronger? Hate is not strength. It is chaos, and builds nothing.

As for the right to say whatever you want, there is no such right, unless that right is granted to you by the community in which you find yourself. In this case, that is no national government or constitution, but the WP administrators.

You think someone who can be hurt by ugly vicious words is weak? Words are precursors to action and are symbolic of action. They can be every bit as much a form of violence as beating someone with a baseball bat. People who respond with dismay to angry words are not weak, they're perceptive enough to know they've been attacked. Psychological abuse is still abuse and anyone who can't understand that, is either in very deep denial or has a mental health issue far more serious that AS, most likely a pathological personality disorder.

Just as in RL, any community who finds in it's midst an individual whose behavior is disruptive, damaging and harmful to others is obligated to remove that individual in order for the community to continue to function productively. Hatemongers are a social cancer and should not be tolerated.

WP right now has at least two regular posters whose aggressive and insensitive behavior warrant their immediate removal.

What word is that? (my mom doesn't tell me anything)