This is ridiculous. For not only the sake of the First Amendment and the freedom of speech but for schools and the power to educate by use of books. This censorship against a document that has been in existence for two hundred years is clearly lacking the usage of common sense and reason. If words have been published in something as well known as a Merriam-Webster's dictionary for that long and if they were put there in the first place for that matter there had to have been some reasonable application for it. If parents want their children not to see curse words in the dictionary then they should do whatever they think suiting to do so but banning a dictionary is outright ludicrous. Maybe my thoughts are not as sensitive towards parents and their relationships with their children, and maybe that is because I do not yet have children but I was raised in a generation where it was still okay to get a slap on the wrist for not taking your hat off at the table or saying a curse word you found in the dictionary. That is sometimes what it takes to teach right from wrong and as a child I knew what that was. But nowadays even that is "banned". I believe that if children are raised to know what is a bad word and why it is not to be said, that that is much more conducive to preventing misbehavior than banning a book for example that may have a couple of those words or even more ridiculously a dictionary.
-Chris C
Your first sentence alone said it all!
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