no offense to mormons as a whole, but they think that an entire ancient Jewish civilization existed on the American continent during the times of Christ. Im not really gonna take any scientific research they put out with any sort of credibility.
Study Claims Profanity Causes Aggression
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wow. Just wow. These "scientists" just keep getting stupider. This is the dumbest crap I've ever heard.
Watch your language, there are young adults on this website!JediMB said:
OT: Maybe the people who use profanity are aggressive as a "fuck you" to people who demonize one word more than another when they mean the same damn thing. Exhibit A: My profanity-abstaining friend and I magically stub our toes at the exact same time when we're hanging out. I say "Dammit!" while he or she cries out "Darnit!" We both mean the exact same thing, but somehow what I said is worse.
I have to say, I only swear when I am feeling more aggressive. It doesn't cause me to feel more aggressive. If anything it helps me calm down since it serves as a signal as to how I am feeling.
But study does what studies do, prove the earth is flat regardless of evidence.
But study does what studies do, prove the earth is flat regardless of evidence.
I've looked at this "honor code" before. NO CAFFEINE! What the hell, BYU!?!CM156 said:Andy Chalk said:
I kid, I kid.
This is very different then the Honor Code I have at my school. Glad I didn't go to BYU.
Now, on topic, I don't know. I don't use profanities much myself. Still, that's kind of a stretch for me. Just kinda.
Oh, they also suspended their star basketball player for having sex with his girlfriend. Make sense out of THAT.
The words mean nothing. It'd be better to look into where the kids were exposed to the words, or if they were exposed in a controlled test, what associations they had already formed around the words. Just saying fuck won't make someone violent. If they associate it with a 'feeling' of aggression, then yeah, it probably could snap them into that mindset.
But I still think this kind of thing is missing the point. Mankind has always been exposed to instincts, aggressive emotions, and so on. The solution isn't to wipe out all potential triggers 'for our own safety' but to teach people to control themselves. You know, like how killing your father to seize control of the family isn't really the thing to do any more. Perhaps it would be better to ban fathers, so nobody would be tempted to kill them...
But I still think this kind of thing is missing the point. Mankind has always been exposed to instincts, aggressive emotions, and so on. The solution isn't to wipe out all potential triggers 'for our own safety' but to teach people to control themselves. You know, like how killing your father to seize control of the family isn't really the thing to do any more. Perhaps it would be better to ban fathers, so nobody would be tempted to kill them...
Isn't it better that Kids are blowing the brains out of people on online matches, then going out and shooting someone to vent frustration?
This strikes me more like violent people would just like movies with swearing in them. That being said, it seems more likely that the people who don't like swearing in a movie is so low in number that their personal views of morality, and they're the type of people who wouldn't hurt another person either vocally or physically.
Only girl I knew who didn't like swearing in a movie was so opposed to conflict, of any kind, that I can't imagine her hurting anything, even if it might kill her. She's good people.
Only girl I knew who didn't like swearing in a movie was so opposed to conflict, of any kind, that I can't imagine her hurting anything, even if it might kill her. She's good people.
Sounds like bulshit to me, I cursed like a sailor when I was a kid, right out the gate too, 2nd grade I think is when I started cursing, and I've physically struck a grand total of 6 people in my entire life, 4 of those people started the confrontation, one of them got hit for saying something very mean to a close lady friend of mine and the other got hit for repeatedly running around nude in a house that wasn't his own.
If anything cursing is cathartic, when something bad happens yelling fuck at the top of your lungs makes it seem just a little bit less bad.
EDIT: Brigham Yound University, wasn't Brigham Young and utterly ruthless man who ordered for many innocent travelers to be massacred? Maybe there should be a study to see if people who go to colleges named after ruthless muderers do studies that are silly and inconclusive.
If anything cursing is cathartic, when something bad happens yelling fuck at the top of your lungs makes it seem just a little bit less bad.
EDIT: Brigham Yound University, wasn't Brigham Young and utterly ruthless man who ordered for many innocent travelers to be massacred? Maybe there should be a study to see if people who go to colleges named after ruthless muderers do studies that are silly and inconclusive.
