Originally Posted by Shiznaz
... I could care less about moral boundaries when someone has just put my life at serious risk and then threatens more harm upon me. They just lost all privelages of me treating them in any kind of moral fashion. Short of violence, which I am firmly against, really offensive insults (whether they be racist, sexist, homophobic, religious etc.) are all I can really do to try to hurt the person that has just hurt me.
It sounds like you do care about moral boundaries (you won't resort to violence) but you're cool with using racial epithets under certain circumstances. I think using these words even towards someone who deserves it just serves to divide people and enforce the idea that we aren't equals. Because of that, in a way just using those words (even though they are just words) is a form of racism. I'm really not judging you here, I totally see where you're coming from. It's just something to think about.