My second post (my final post, that is) was in direct response to someone who pointed out (correctly) that as lewd and offensive as my first post (#4, that is) was, it hadn’t gone quite far enough in establishing criminality so I attempted to provide the missing element of a clearly criminal nature, with a little extra colour in the form of imagined hypothetical dialogue in my imaginary hypothetical situation.
Really, don’t you suppose that instead of getting the Mod Hive into a snit for three days over this, you might have merely asked me nicely to tone it down and make my point more obliquely? I’d have been happy to oblige, though the spectacle of report after report coming into you and you consulting with your colleagues over the properly worded warning is quite something.
As I implied above, had I worded it more delicately, I doubt anyone would have had the smallest problem with the hypothetical situation I was trying to describe. I shan’t do it here, for fear of violating your sensibilities, but I assure you the exact hypothetical I was describing can easily be rendered in polysyllabic, quasi-legal terminology that could offend you only by putting you to sleep. So it’s not the hypothetical that offended so deeply, I think, as much as the language I chose for comical effect to couch it in. I will strive in the future to be more aware of the sensitivity to language around here. I consider myself properly warned, but I suppose you need to place a demerit in my official file.