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CMV: Cussing (cursing, swearing) needs more utilization in today’s society, rather than being frequenty shunned.

I understand that in today’s society, cussing is seen as something that is not orthodox and approved. It’s heavily looked down upon by many demographics.

Children in particular, are shunned away from cuss words due to the parent fearing that the child will learn these words and get in trouble at school or a similar place. When a child grows up, maybe around the middle school (age 11-12) phase, they will start to hear these words being used more frequently by their peers. This can result in issues - because their whole life, they were taught that they can not say these words, or that they are “bad” and will result in some form of punishment, be it societal, religious, etc.

Now I also realize that some religious groups prohibit certain vanities. In Christianity, a person can not use God’s name in vain. This is because they are cursing God himself, rather than saying a simple word.

I understand that many people do not cuss around certain people out of respect, for example not throwing around F words around their grandmother. But this is because it’s an established behavior - that they absolutely cannot use a cuss word because someone put a label on that specific word. Origins of language aside-who is to say that saying “shit” is a “bad” thing? It’s just a simple word. It’s no different than using any other word in the same way. 

Take “damn” and “dang” for example. The only thing that separates these two words is a couple of simple letters. But people have no problem saying “dang it,” yet they’ll be very hesitant to say “damn it.” That’s just one very minor example.

At the end of the day, I wish cussing was more accepted today. There’s a label on it as being established as a bad thing, when in reality it’s just a grouping of letters to convey a thought.
gpt
If cursing was acceptable it would not be cursing. This is why dang isn’t cursing. It’s acceptable. The whole point of cursing is to show that you are so frustrated/angry/scared/hurt/annoyed etc, that you are willing to flout society’s rules on what is acceptable language.


This happens to all curse words eventually and then we invent new ones. There was a time when damn was a serious curse word.