An Exercise in Futility

Here is something that I absolutely hate. The idea that certain words should not be said simply because they are "swear words". Now some words, in certain contexts, are not appopriate at all - I wouldn't call a woman a "bitch", or call anyone a "faggot" and so forth. Certain slang phrases (suck as "Jungle Bunny") shouldn't be used because of their intention. However, there is nothing wrong with words like "hell", "damn", "shit", and even, really, "fuck". I realize that the last word has acquired a new meaning, but the others really remain the same. Nonetheless, people are uptight about words which mean, respectively, a mythological place from Norse and Christian mythology, the action of sending people to hell or writing them off so that they'll be sent to hell, poop, and sex. None of these are particularly bad things. And yet people act like children shouldn't hear them, or they shouldn't here them. Why is this? The idea is that "they're offensive" but really, they shouldn't be. They're only offensive because people make them offensive. If everyone taught their child that those words were essentially no worse than other words then we wouldn't have problems with them. But many people are too close minded to accept that sort of thing.

Likewise, information about sex and sexual organs are not something that should be hidden from children. If it weren't treated like something totally different from everything else, then people wouldn't be so uptight about discussing it and it wouldn't be such a big deal.

Lastly, I heard someone say a few things which were totally wrong: that "children are less innocent that they used to be" and that "America is in a moral and religious decline". Both of these statements are very untrue.

Children are no less innocent than they used to be. They may actually be more "innocent" (a word used to mean that they don't know words which are considered inappropriate, etc)

The United States may perhaps be in a moral decline but I have no idea about the religious decline. Any country that would elect people from the Tea Party is populated by easily influenced idiots. As for a religious decline, I would disagree. It's in the middle of the theological battles that happened in Europe a while ago where the Christians fought against science and eventually lost. It's bound to happen again here at some point.