Oh forget it. I wasn’t trolling anyway.
“Damn” is the only curse word. Everything else is just provocative.
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then what are you saying!?! 
I kept my mouth shut the whole time and pressed the keyboard randomly to see what I’d type.
That implys “what are you thinking?”. What do you mean when you put that God and jesus=bad?
I thought that Star was saying that if the word is good it’s good and when it’s evil it’s bad. Obviously I misinterpreted.
but how are the words “God and Jesus” evil?
They’re not evil, just they are sometimes used in a non-good way.
Oh, like “oh my God”?
Sure.
Starwars, I’m just gonna put this out here - you fail at ranting. You’re coming across as arrogant rather than angry… ironically, you’d be much better at it if you swore a lot. Rants are generally longer too. Also, it’d be much better if your points made any sense whatsoever, but hey, that’s not really a staple for ranting.
I actually hardly ever swear IRL and on the Interwebs, but I’d never outright claim that it’s “wrong”. It’s not morally questionable, rather disrespectful in SOME cases. In fact, almost all of your post content is pointless - they just seem to be hypocritical claims made by someone who clearly hasn’t thought about or researched the subject matter that much. For example:
Your excuses don’t justify anything (not that you made any - refer to my previous point about pointlessness). See how I flipped that there?
My personal belief is that swearing is alright. My argument is thus:
I don’t see any laws (ancient storybook ones or otherwise) that prohibit them from being spoken under all circumstances (those last three words hastily added as I recalled watershed regulations, etc). A word is a word, after all, it’s just the attitude to the word that gives it so much power, and, on a lesser scale, the subject matter at hand. Swear words simply exist because people don’t like to hear things they’re embarrassed by or don’t like thinking about brought to their attention so quickly (I don’t count blasphemy, which doesn’t fall under this category, as swearing - I count it as blasphemy. They’re different things).
If I mention a swear word, a stranger who has an aversion to that particular word will go “LORDY LORD HOW DARE YOU SAY THAT gradual flustery incoherency” or something to that effect, but the thing is, it’s their fault that they don’t want to hear it. Or rather, the fault of a lifetime of forced lifestyle choice, unfairly imposed at childhood, due to the child in question not knowing any better, or not being allowed a choice. (I’m looking at you, religious people. YES, YOU THERE, WITH THE SILLY HATS). I have no irrational quibble with the word. I realise it for what it is - simply a word used to express anger, or rather, a strong feeling that couldn’t be attached to a more common word.
Does it make it WRONG to swear, simply because “some people might get upset OH NOES”, when in reality, I could apply the same backwards logic to any situation where people MIGHT get upset about something? “I MUSTN’T BRING THIS BLOCK OF WOOD TO A PUBLIC PLACE, PEOPLE WHO DON’T LIKE WOOD MIGHT GET UPSET OH NOES”. A different case would be deliberately shoving a block of wood in the face of someone that you know doesn’t like wood. That’s disrespectful, or inappropriate, but definitely not WRONG, it’s simply their fault for not liking wood. And as for swearing in private being wrong? If you can justify a statement about how that’s wrong, you’re either insane, or Jesus himself. Being that there is no law against swearing (I mentioned this before, you might remember), and it’s not going to affect ANYONE, I think it’s perfectly allowable in that situation.
Oh, and don’t give me that rubbish about “swearing reflecting a negative attitude that people don’t like” because that’s an insult to both my intelligence and character, and assumes that you’re prejudging people who swear for angry louts who get their kicks smashing things up and antagonising people.
TL;DR: QQ more, noobs. Don’t get offended at every little thing. Swearing is not bad. Just not appropriate on some occasions.
Now THERE is a rant that you can take to the bank. I’m fairly sure I missed out a LOT of points that I could make, so feel free to mention any arguments that you might have and I’ll gladly either smash them out of the park or inform you that you’re confusing the word “wrong” for another word better applied to a situation and that I in fact actually share the same feelings about said matter.
Hey, look at that - an intelligent, thought out argument against swearing that… whoa, didn’t contain a single swear word! Guess you were wrong.
Good day.
Oh, and before I forget…
EDIT: Whoa, this took a while, I hit the submit button and it appears there’s been a pile-up of posts on the threadway.
Wow everyone’s stealing Star’s titles lately. Who wants the “Star Wars fan” one?
I would argue with that, but it’s in opinion, not a fact. All I can say is it is evil
Also, Hypo is a mod. He doesn’t count.
Yeah only people who like to be in charge and in the attention-bucket swear a lot. I sometimes swear under my breath when I’m angry because it feels powerful and it releases my anger.
See, that’s reasonable, but cussing in someone’s face just becuase they don’t like it (and not becuase your mad)? that’s bad.
It is bad. Especially when it becomes a habit, and you’re not even using it to intimidate someone (even though it still does). I don’t really mind when it’s used online though.
Both of you need to reread DC’s post before you spam this thread with more mindless shit.
DC’s rant’ll take forever to read. Can’t I just read the opening and closing sentences?
And my shit has a lot of mind in it, just to say.
To quote an “ancient book”:
29 Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen
So “unwholesome talk” (IE cuss words) are not allowed in my religion, making them bad (in my religion). Also, they wouldn’t say “lordy lord!” becuase that’s even worse than cussing.
Hm … could this “ancient book” be the Bible? Ephesians 4:29Well I guess why I’m a bit sensitive to it is because my Dad would curse loads when I was younger. Don’t blame me.