Interesting discussion topic from another site. Your opinion please?

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

The basic subject is this:

The poster was a mom, with kids around 5-8 years old. Her next door neighbors are a house full of young single adults.

Her complaint was that these neighbors have extreme potty mouth profanity use in all their conversation (the complaint was not about noise level etc.). This original poster is no prude. Apparently even her kids commented to her about how much cussing the neighbors do. Apparently there is no fence or anything so ordinary conversation carries. There was not a complaint about the noise level etc. just profanity. She had been considering going over there and politely asking the neighbors to tone down the profanity.

The response to her thread was very mixed.

She is certainly within her rights to approach the neighbors and ask this, but I don't know that she has a right to expect or compel any changes.

Not sure what regional laws cover stuff like this when people are in their own yards and not being noisy.

[TheFriendlyAnarchist]

1. I still think 'profanity' is BS anyway. It's a WORD people , it's

societies damn fault it's taboo anyway (granted, I don't think there should be any taboo's).

On the issue at hand, if it really bothers her or her kids, she could go and ask the neighbors, but I don't tihnk she does (or should) have any legal basis against them. If it's so wrong for the kids, than just let them know they shouldn't use the words.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

2. This was the point that many of the respondents took, that she should

simply use it as an example of how not to behave.

[TheFriendlyAnarchist]

3. Well, I guess if she's opposed to it, then that's one thing she could do

I guess I personally wouldn't care, so long as the kids didn't talk that way in places where it could cause complications (like school)