Can you even imagine a world where you are not allowed to disagree with someone? It would be insane. The purpose of disagreeing in a DISCUSSION forum is to present a different point of view to those that have not made up their minds (or to convince the person you are talking to that their view is not the only viable one). The purpose of disagreeing in a vote is to let people know that their idea isn't universally accepted, which is the ONLY thing you can garner from positive votes. People agree with me ergo I must be right. I'd rather see the voting system removed entirely than be completely one-sided.
It means that forcing someone to say 'darn' instead of damn doesn't change the intended meaning and more importantly, the person. That is where political correctness is just plain silly. Calling someone a "sanitary engineer" doesn't change the fact they're a garbage man. Calling someone "horizontally challenged" doesn't make them less fat. It just sounds ridiculous. But that is the kind of society we seem to be living in today. You aren't allowed to call a spade a spade. You must call it a soil transplantation device.
Heaven forbid we communicate openly and honestly and instead doll it up with niceties and misdirection and yes, smokescreens that try to avoid hurting anyone's feelings, but ultimately are still saying the exact same things. The problem is that even when it 'seems' to work for awhile, sooner or later the new word inevitably and always itself receives a negative connotation because it STILL means the same thing! Because someone doesn't want to be "fat", they soon don't want to be called "horizontally challenged" either because we all still know it means they're overweight and the condition is the problem, not the word describing it. The absurdity of it all knows no bounds. But some feel-good types with good intentions (but very little logic) has lead to the absurdity factor we face on a daily basis. George Carlin tried to address this, but in a comical way and the method is reductio ad absurdum and it's funny because it's true and the new labels are just plain ridiculous sounding in most cases, especially when you know what they're actually referring to (sanitary engineer in particular comes to mind and when you actually went to college for many years to get a degree in order to actually be called an engineer, it's also patronizing to an extent. I cannot just call myself a Doctor because I want to be called that...well I could but it would be ridiculous and so is political correctness for the same reason. It attempts to hide what something is by giving it a new name as if that somehow makes it different.)
