Swearing is just a bad habit, lazy use of language, displays a lack of self-control and an inability to express yourself intelligently
Is it? Or could it be that society (Governments/law makers/religious bodies) tells us that certain words are unacceptable and some more than others. For example in the UK swearing in public can be seen as an offense against section 5(1) and (6) of the Public Order Act 1986.
When we were growing up, we learn’t various words and because society told us they are wrong, we used these words in front of mates! I guess an element of this was us trying to show how big and clever we were in front of friends!
Now why doesn’t society just de-classify swear words and allow their full integration into the English language and dictionaries. I’m sure if swear words were seen as acceptable, then their use may also reduce. After all these swear words are just made from the vowels and consonants in our language. How can “piss” be classed as offensive?
Although if that were to happen, I guess people would just create new words that would be seen as offensive!