(May 6, 2013 at 5:33 pm)mo66 Wrote: So they are "just words" and people shouldn't be "offended" by them or give a "power" to them and yet you do not swear around your son as much as on this forum or in real life. Why? I thought they were "just words"No need to give them "power"
Because the social convention is that kids could not swear, and I do not want other people to judge him based on the words he copies from his father. Oh, and my wife would kick my ass.
If people weren't so uptight about it, I wouldn't give a shit if my son swears.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
