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Originally Posted by Back In The Saddle
Sheesh! Are we really this hard up for something to discuss? The season cannot get here quickly enough.  |
Well, as much as I might usually pile on the bandwagon to give Billy a hard time, he does bring up a valid point: who gets to decide what is vulgar and obscene in each context? In the context of the (obviously fictional) game he describes, the only person who finds the tattoos offensive is the official, so does the official get to make the determination that the players have to cover the tat's, even though none of the players find them offensive? What if one of the players has a tat that says, "PETA = People Eating Tasty Animals", and another player is a vegetarian and finds it offensive; should the player cover that tat because only one other person finds it offensive, while the rest of us consider it a good joke?
Btw, I don't have a good answer; I've only got questions. I don't know how we keep everyone happy without offending anyone. Maybe that's why the Fed. determined there should be some rule and standard in place, but left it up to each state to determine where to actually draw the line in the sand. I think, in reality, most of us ignore stuff like that unless it is so obvious to everyone it cannot be ignored.