I see this as part of a much greater understanding -
All language, verbal or otherwise, is symbolic and contextual, used to describe both the abstract and the apparent. The connections between any given symbol and an emotion or similar thought can be reinforced through repetitious programming, that's what drives learning, but those connections are ultimately arbitrary.
For example, we have learned to associate the Swastika with the vile evil of the Nazis, but also unfortunately take a connection far enough to the degree of automatically assuming that anyone openly utilizing a swastika in public, endorses the Nazi regime and its' methods. We could back this up with other symbols - whether the person Sieg Heils, for example, but even between the increasing body of evidence, we cannot PROVE they are a Nazi. All *probability* points to the fact - and both Occam's Razor and the physiological need to regulate energy use towards the simplest mental route will back that up - but so much more neurological processing is present in that other person that you cannot see in those short judging seconds. The person could in fact, be making an anti-Nazi statement, for all you know!
Despite your preconceived beliefs, no one can make such a judgment call on another person's character, simply because all truth and evidence are a patchwork of probability - guesses - pointing to the frightening truth that NO ONE IS IN CONTROL OF ANYTHING. The system is an incredibly complex ongoing series of equations, that some might attempt to control but, beyond the act of creating or utilizing an act or symbol with our minds, or increasing the chance of a certain outcome, is ultimately out of our hands.
Obviously we draw the moral line at impinging upon the civil liberties of someone else, which is what the Nazis did with such horror. The general public's association of simple words with kneejerk moral outrage, on the other hand, is laughable and points to a superstitious need to be outraged.
Most of these words are to do with sex and bodily functions: they come from years of the need of the upper-class to separate themselves from what they viewed as the coarse working classes, where a lot of these words came from. That's why I believe censorship is rooted in shame and fear. It says to me that people attempt to change their reality through altering language, because they cannot handle the worst reality of what they really are - horny, defecating, violent, neurotic beasts with a wildly flailing need to control. The truly mature mind sees no word or image as an automatic connection to anything else, for when you label something with force you give it the seal of truth, you stop it acting as it really is - free and independent of your thoughts, associations, emotions and mental imprinting. Instead, you act from the mammalian-reptilian brain - and essentially stop your mind working properly.
Subjective experience is a dream: language is our canvas for creating ideas and solutions to problems within it, which we can then bring into this world. People should be free to make their own conclusions free of assumption, expectation and all other imposed mental barriers. Profanity is just one of them, as is lust for power, fear of sexuality and death and drugs, religious hatred - all products of a mind that, in needing to control an illusion to avoid pain, creates the pain in the first place!
So quiet your mind. Everything is, and that's all there is anyway. Learn how to do something much more important - love, freely, every day. The things you own will end up destroying you, so let them go.
The most important thing you need to know...
Is that you don't know sh!t.
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