Egalitarian Language

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number of people,
not only in the world but even just in large cities. The only way to
enforce a law of this kind would be to have microphones in every room of
every building and on every street corner that would detect if an illegal
word was said and issue a ticket of some form, as in the movie Demolition
Man. Ironically, if this was to happen, we still would not be living in an
egalitarian society because our government would not consider us equal
enough to be responsible for our own language. If this kind of system were
to be installed I believe that it would cause an overthrow of the
government and lead to an anarchist society. People are not going to be
told what they can and cannot say. This "language law" would also never be
passed under our government; the first amendment of the constitution
guaranties free speech to all citizens.
As far as unwritten language laws, well, they may exist in some parts
of society but not in all. Take for example rap music, here is a ...

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