Why people swear so much?

In Alan Ehrenhalt’s article “Maledictoratory, The high costs of low language” he is giving examples and wondering how nowadays people use more swearwords than they used to. I agree with him. People tend to swear a lot in today’s society. Why is that?

For most of the people swearing is an ethical question. Usually people tend to be either against it or for it. I think it depends a lot in what circumstances a child is being raised. If his or her parents cuss a lot, usually the child learns also that it is not wrong and finally starts to use bad language as well.

People who use swearwords usually use them to get their point across more powerfully. Or at least I think if one is using swearwords, he or she tends to be more masculine and have more power.

What makes people swear so much then? Do they think they need to swear to act cool towards their peers?

I was raised in a family that nobody was allowed to swear. I remember once when I was about 12 years old and I said a swearword to my mother and I regretted that long time. Swearing to me is kind of a bad thing to do. Nobody even from my relatives swear, which I now find kind of weird, because now I think that almost everybody swears.

I think people in today’s society swear a lot and that is why one can hear even as young as ten-year-old boys and girls using a bad language at the park or at the school. Isn’t that kind of shame? I really think so. We should ban swearing now and forever. What is the point of using a bad language? Does it make one more cool or popular? I don’t think so. I think that most of the time the consequences are the opposite. As usually older generations really look at people who swear downwards.