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Originally Posted by mookiemookie
I understand what you're saying, but I haven't been to sea so forgive my uninformed opinion.
I think any time you get a group of guys together, they're going to rib each other using all kinds of offensive crap and slurs. We do it at work all the time. I don't think anyone would begrudge anyone doing that sort of thing with your buddies. But do you think it's a good idea to commit that stuff to film and distribute it across the ship to people you know and people you don't know? There's stuff I'd say to some of the guys at work that I wouldn't dream of saying to other guys I work with. By broadcasting the film shipwide, you're essentially saying this stuff to everyone.
And an officer committing it to film gives it a sort of institutionalized stamp of approval which doesn't really happen if he's doing it in a one-on-one situation with guys he knows.
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^this
The way to talk in private talk with your buddies, is one thing. But loose talking being used in that context, better is not used facing strangers, or anonymous groups of people, it easily becomes offensive, at least unpolite. Like for forums like this one: you better do not write the way you talk to close friends, this is also true when writing letters - if you write as loose and harsworded as you may use your tongue when being with your friends, you easily give the impression to be a stupid prolet showing off that way. If you risk your career over doing so, then your situation assessment works highly erratic. And if you even record it on video and distribute it to 5-6 thousand people, and record the evidence on tape or TV, and ignore complaints and warnings, then you really have lost your marbles, completely.