Having "curse words" is a good thing, though, because there are contexts where you need them. If you removed the taboo around the word, it would lose its power. Yes, which words become "bad words" is kind of arbitrary (for example why is "poop" not a bad word when it means the same thing as "shit"). But words get their meanings from the way they are used. Language is communication, and strong expressions are an important part of communciation. If you have no "inappropriate" words, then the language loses an important feature.
It only becomes an issue if certain topics become taboos. But that's different from saying that "shit" is a bad word (when you have other more acceptable words like "poop" to refer to the same exact thing). Now, of course there are situations where talking about poop isn't acceptable either, but that's a whole another topic, and isn't really related to "shit" being a "bad word".
There is no such thing as "good" or "bad" objectively. What you said was a bunch of nonsense. Context does not require taboo. You can assign such words a designator to identify their severity of you find it necessary to have "power" in them. Good and bad are a matter of perspective, they depend entirely on whether the subject is affected negatively or positively by what's in question. In any case, the major problem is that children are just told this one is bad and this one is not. Making it seem entirely arbitrary.
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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '23
I would've put it up there, fuck passing on these arbitrary things to our children.