Pointless Profanity

Some people believe that an increase in profanity is indicative of a decline in society's morals. Profanity is often associated with violence, and many a time the use of foul language and profanity has started fights, or even more serious incidents, sometimes ending in injury, maiming, or even death. Such incidents are entirely avoidable, and do nothing positive for society. Profanity is also very degrading to people, and can rob citizens of their dignity. In most societies in the world, profanity is also considered rude, and pointless. As profanity increases in a society, it is quite evident that people who do such a thing have lost the ability to express themselves clearly with words that have actual meaning and are not nearly harmful to the feelings of others. These people instead choose to use foul language and profanity for the effect the cause in showing emotions of anger, when instead they could be expressing their thoughts and emotions logically and clearly using words other than profanities. Also, if an adult swears constantly in front of their children, the child can easily pick up the habit, and that can stick with them for the rest of their lives, and have detrimental effects on their learning and overall attitude towards others.

It is quite evident in society, especially in such an age as this with a recession, that people can get angry. Sometimes this anger is meaningless and unjustified, and when this is such, it is hard to calm down, but some people find that swearing can help them calm down their anger. It's better than initiating physical violence onto other people, whether involved or not, and potentially causing injury or worse to themselves or someone else. Secondly, profanities are only words, and it's how you take them that matters; if you simply accept that it is a natural part of the human complex, and is impossible to shut out. If someone is deeply offended by a single profane word, than that person that is offended needs to take a look around them, because they probably use profane words themselves daily, although possibly words that are not perceived as being as bad as some, but are still officially considered profane. Lastly, it is almost impossible to go through a day without using at least one profane word, but only a select few are tabooed in society, even though many of the other words that are accepted in many places have the same meanings as those which some people believe are unpleasant to be heard.