Do you think society has become too accepting of profanity in public?
It seems I can't go anywhere anymore without hearing f-bombs and other profanity being dropped with regularity. This goes on at the grocery stores, wal-mart, restaurants, everywhere. It's usually young adults/teens doing the cursing without any regard for who is around...children etc. I do not like it at all and wish people had more respect for others.
13 Answers to "Do you think society has become too accepting of profanity in public?"
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not accepting enough.
My value system says I should use all the words possible to express exactly how I feel and what I mean and anything short of clarity is unwarrented. Others however, thinking themselves not intrusive, are telling me how to speak because of their relgious belief...Like (3)
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I do hear what people are saying about freedom of speech and being able to vent and say what they want, but I also know that swearing sounds horrible. When I hear a group of people swearing I can't help but automatically think, they sound like uneducated, show-off, wanna-be, tough guys. Even though I myself swear. I try really hard not to though, because it does sound so bad. It's also true that the more you swear, the more limited your vocabulary, so that you can't even think of other words to use instead of swear words. (mean like at times when you would normally swear, not generally). This is a long answer huh?! So really I think yes!
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Yes; it's rife. I've heard it so many times *and* in front of their own kids standing at their sides. I think we are too accepting because, in effect, people are pressing profanity into everyone's face and not everyone wants to hear it. For a person to say it's the way the *only* way they can express themselves, I don't agree. For those who don't think it's an issue? Then let them try spewing nasty words in front of their kids and teach them early so they too can be equally expressive; right? No, of course it isn't right. It's a case of "I'll speak as I want and you being in earshot doesn't matter; live with it".
I'm no prude, but I do have a semblance of respect to other people. It seems that society is equally as lacking in respect to others who don't want to hear profanity; why should be told they have to put up with it? That's the issue here, another issue of choices working *both* ways and for the good of society as a whole.
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I agree! But I find older folks are using profanity much more as well. Hell, I'm even surprised with the amount we hear on television nowadays.
But I guess I'm just getting to be one of those old farts. '"Why, back in my day, if you caught a young whipper snapper using that kind of language......"Like (2)
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Are you talking about the USA? I think our first amendment to the constitution guarantees your right to use profanity. I would rather not hear it and the same constitution gives me the right to NOT listen the profanity fountains among us.
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yes,watch tv.....
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Language evolves like everything. What is profanity today isn't necessarily profanity in a few hundred years. Nobody lives long enough to notice the change but it happens.
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Eh? The last ten years has moved on as far as public profanity is concerned and those looking back twenty years can't believe how bad it's become.
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But that's the case in everything previous generations relate to. Technology, culture, art, you name it. 20 years is no where near the amount of time for anything to evolve.
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I read that in the UK a high court judge recently declared that swear words are so widely known and so widely used that it cannot possibly be illegal to use them. So swearing in public is no longer a crime
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thank **** for that :pLike (1)
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It's the way of the future, sorry to say. The younger they learn de lingo/punctuation, the better they'll be at it!
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I don't dislike the term profane, the original idea of debunking what is supposed to be sacred. As for using crude words, well it gets annoying when it's the only words people know and use.
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Seem like that is the norm anywhere you go.
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Yes! Very much so! My one friend is real bad for that in public places. I have to tell him all the time to watch his mouth around kids and women. Or I will drive his welfare *** back to the ghetto and he can talk that way all he wants.
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Posted by thisisevenlessfunnow Dec 29th, 2011 at 1:07PM
What the **** are you talking about?
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