Why this policies on flaming and swearing?

[Beirut]

This is not about the place it's about freedom,

One man's freedom in another man's anarchy. Besides, this is not a "free" forum. It is a privately run site with rules. You have the freedom to join and follow the rules or to go elsewhere.

The ultimate question will be: Do you let your morality (if any) get on the way you relate to people or do you let for the same porpouse enter the finesse of your vocabulary? Do you think that swearing most be censured or that it should be allowed in any given place?

Call it morality or simply conventional wisdom. I swear like ten sailors at work. Doesn't bother me or the guys. I do not swear in front of the clients, nor do I say "would you like some ******* cereal for breakfast?" to my kids. It's simply inappropriate. Why? Because conventional wisdom says that swearing in front of little kids is wrong. Along with farting in crowded elevators and burping at funerals. Doesn't hurt anyone, just bad manners.

Well in fact many of the sites that i've seen keep the same policies. I only encountered that kind of freedom in latin american forums.

Freedom, or lack of regulation?