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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elder-Basilisk" data-source="post: 764470" data-attributes="member: 3146">And would that be a universally bad thing? There are quite a few things that I take for granted today that I would prefer not to have to. There are also quite a few things that other people have had to take for granted and I don't--precisely because of standards.To refuse to determine what is tasteful, acceptable or right and to set limits based upon that determination is to surrender to the lowest artistic, professional or moral standards that emerges; it's allowing the lowest common (or uncommon) denominator to determine the standards.And infinitely mutable standards aren't standards at all. Sooner or later it will be necessary to decide if we have standards or if we don't.And yet slander, libel, and assault are legally actionable. Whether or not there is uniform agreement on what is insulting, it is still unacceptable for just about any non-rapper to use the words "d@..mn ni...ger." The B word that rhymes with itch isn't acceptable in professional settings either these days.Is art different from that? Maybe. Is it more personal? Maybe? However, if you want to say that art is so different from language that there can be no normative standards (even culture relative ones), that's something that needs to be proven.</blockquote>