Do you realize the absurdity..?

Question

.. of the concept of "good" and "bad" words?

Answer 1

Odd, my husband and I were just discussing that concept with our daughter yesterday. We explained that 'bad' words are only 'bad' because society says so. We don't have a problem with her using so called 'bad' words, because we do it all the time. I'm not even quite sure how the concept of unacceptable words got started. They're just words.

Answer 2

It is perhaps absurd but also an important or valuable study. Even as language is in transformation, there is a contemporaneous necessity for using the present language, so there are 'good words' to use that convey better in this time than an other, but there are bad words that do not exist in this time. We have become more Judgment communicators affecting the heart or Spirit more than conceptual as for honor and valor. It is not so much that we use bad words, as that we do not use enough good words.

Answer 3

i was raised by a linguist mother who taught us that there were no "bad" words; that we imbued words with meaning. At the same time, she taught us that because our society operates under middle class values and the middle class does label words "good" or "bad", we were taught to refrain from using certain words in public. And if private for that matter: the F word in particular, she taught us, was a powerful word and should be reserved for only those occasions which warrant its use.

Now though that we're all grown, it's a hoot to sit around with my 76 year old father and my 69 year old mother and throw the F word around in conversation. But I've always remembered the point she made about middle class values and society....

Answer 4

It's not necessarily absurd. It does show that there are rituals and taboos in any society. It also shows there is a sense of hierarchy and ritual. Certain words are inappropriate at certain times.
The western world, with its democratic values is quickly doing away with all kinds of decorum, because decorum is considered to be a restriction of people's true natures.
In the orient, however, they view things differently. Confucius is one thinker that pondered ritual much. He did not believe ritual was necessary for its own sake. But ritual did instill a sense of order and respect, and through that order and respect, people would learn to respect one another and themselves and would therefore strive to be better, wiser people.

Answer 5

In that absurdity humanity had been developed itself for thousands of years...and still...if matter of absurdity will be globally recognized and accepted, all the development will be collapsed, and we would literally "continue" from the beginning, from where good and bad does not exist.... That should be deeply understood and accepted by everyone. Judge not1

Answer 6

Its only absurdity if they are not thought over and used accordingly. whats absurd is bad really meaning good.

Answer 7

One has got to be generally afraid of words as a whole, to feel it necessary to separate the bad ones from the others.

Answer 8

No.

'Society' needs rules to function. They can cover everything from what women should or shouldn't wear, to the way we cross streets in rush hour to the words you do and don't use.

I'm not even 50 yet, but when two boys under 10 walked past my gate the other day, literally using 'F' as every second word in their conversation - I was upset.

Without standards, a society will collapse. words are as important as dress, behaviour in the streets and what does/doesn't constitiute a crime. (It appears, for instance, it is OK in US/Western Europe to use "F---ing Jesus" as a swear word/exclamtaion - but nobody would dare say "F---ing Allah!", would they? Why not?)

Answer 9

Depends upon the meaning. "Good" words may be the words that most properly descibe the situation. "Bad" words could be those that fail to do so.

Answer 10

Crazy isn't it.

Love and blessings Don