I very rarely swear, nor do I find vulgarity in others a good thing. It’s not because I am a prude, or that my delicate sensibilities (if I have any!) are easily offended. Here’s why:
To a degree then, I believe the health of a culture can be measured by the performance of those who speak and write its language. If that thesis is credible, then perhaps we should be worried by the coarseness, vulgarity, and at times obscenity that we encounter so often today in America speech….Rather than liberate our perception, vulgarity calcifies it.
Charles Johnson—The Way of the Writer