I await Anonnymouse's dissertation in response to my questions about his feelings regarding the word "fuck", which was th eoriginal topic.

Of course, they are often used as insults. A few people, like Clinton and a couple of others too low-minded to even name, believe that denigrating others is a normal part of dialogue, and that it exemplifies courage, or integrity, or some such, to unleash a stream of guttersnipe words at another person in order to express some disagreement. The real shortfall in doing so is that using coarse language that way (rather than the way Catspaw uses it) reflects on a weakness of vocabulary, a lack of imagination, a predilection for base emotions, and an inability to handle subtle or discriminating ideas well. Thus, it reflects far more poorly on the user than on the target of his abuse.

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