Profanity

Was watching Penn & Teller: Bullshit! on Youtube and heard this at the end.

When you really think about profanity, people aren’t asking that we control our anger, they aren’t asking that we change our behavior, that we treat each other more respectfully, that we try to be nicer, they only want you to shout something they feel appropriate when you feel like shouting. They don’t care about the package, just the gift-wrap. They don’t advocate peace, they don’t care if you speak with hate, they want only to change the exact words, as if the words are what make discourse hateful or distasteful. They think the avoidance of certain words is gonna signal an education. Humbug! It’s the words that you use, not the ones you don’t use that show what you know. It’s trivial for us to hurt your feelings with the squeaky cleanest of words; it’s also trivial for us to tell us we love you with the most vulgar profanity. Some instances it even adds a little bit of fun to the love. People are just wrong.

The message is the message.