People need to get over casual use of language. Saying Mother fucker in a song isn’t the same as saying “fuck you asshole” to a stranger for no reason.
This is more than the casual use of language. Screaming motherfucker, song or no, is intentionally trying to offend people. As soon as motherfucker becomes acceptable to all it will no longer be enough to use it and nastier more enraging terms will be used.
He was not arrested for casual use of language. He was arrested for being a jerk and trying to start trouble.[/quote]
It said he screamed? I apologize, I thought he was just singing to himself as he walked.
[quote]LIFTICVSMAXIMVS wrote:
thunderbolt23 wrote:
It was a crime and the police enforced the law.
Malum prohibitum is not a crime.
A crime can only be committed against a person’s body or property. Offending someone with the use of language is not a crime. Period.[/quote]
crime
-noun
an action or an instance of negligence that is deemed injurious to the public welfare or morals or to the interests of the state and that is legally prohibited.
or even
An act committed or omitted in violation of a law forbidding or commanding it and for which punishment is imposed upon conviction.
Unlawful activity
If it is against the law, and the law is duly passed and Constitutional… it is a crime. Period.
It said he screamed? I apologize, I thought he was just singing to himself as he walked.[/quote]
The article said something about him “hollering” it. I took it to mean he was being very loud. If he was just singing to himself then the whole thing would be ridiculous.