Word Play

Society has this weird frame around "bad" words and "good" words. Words only have power if you give them power. Although some words need to be given power like hate and discrimination. But what about words like fuck shit and damn? People use these words for so many differnt reasons, but often enough for the wrong ones. Generally to look like a "bad-ass" or to express extreme rage or frusration. But why should these words hold some much more power over the others? The word couch and fuck are both made of letters, when you say "couch" no one thinks twice. But if you say "fuck", espically in Utah there are bound to be gasps. I use the "bad" words as just common words in my vocabulary. They are nouns, verbs and adjatives just like normal. But then why, do I bite my tongue around my family, after all they are just words, right? To me they are, but to them they are definite "bad" words. This is just because of the way society views them. Who exactly decided that these words were worse than hate? School children, even toddlers, barely learning to speak use hate almost everyday. But NEVER a single swear. And if they do, punnishment will follow quickly. But is this play on words that society has set up justified? Of course not. Hate, is the worst emotion or feeling a person could ever carry and yet children use it everyday "I hate you mom!" This is not right. Words like hate, aren't even bad words, what makes a word bad is the emotion that surronds it. Hate is a horrible emotion and this is what should be stressed across, if anything related to "bad" words and "good" words.