A SLIGHT ALBEIT GENEROUS CORRECTION (June 28, 2003)
The Buddhist proposition that one should not utter—and, by extension, write down—a word if the world would not be the better for it is a shade too constricting. The Bon Buddhist proposition offers a slight albeit generous correction: one should utter whatever one wishes as long as the world would not be the worse for it. All kinds of gibberish are just fine.
Addendum (July 3, 2016)
In retrospect, both propositions strike me as way too constricting. Pray, uttering which word would make the world the better for it? Alternatively, uttering which one would make the world the worse for it? Tough questions, these. Very tough, indeed. Mystified, a conscientious adept of either Buddhism or Bon Buddhism would not utter—or, by extension, write down—a single word. Ever. Come to think of it, this may well be the right answer. Which is perhaps why animals do not speak, let alone write.