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Why can't people just live by the saying "If you don't have anything nice to say, then don't say it at all"

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Because verbal communication would disappear!!!

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Because there are just too many mean people out there who don't care about that saying.

  • 1 decade ago

    Freedom of speech

  • 1 decade ago

    Because we would'nt have the word's nasty,vindictive,wicked,spiteful in the dictionary!

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  • 1 decade ago

    Sometimes the truth is not nice.

    Do you want people to tell you the truth ir "just be nice"?

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