Study Claims Profanity Causes Aggression
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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.
I was thinking more like aggression causes my profanity
or pain. or irritation. but not the other way around lol
generally profanity (swearing) coming first sometimes causes hilarity. well, depends on who you're with. for some friends the emphasis is am amusing added oomf, whereas for others it's GASPPP oh no you didn't! lol
or pain. or irritation. but not the other way around lol
generally profanity (swearing) coming first sometimes causes hilarity. well, depends on who you're with. for some friends the emphasis is am amusing added oomf, whereas for others it's GASPPP oh no you didn't! lol
now you know why i can't take take fox news, the vast majority of anti game actvist seriously.Jodah said:
If swearing causes any sort of reaction, it's because kids are taught the nonsense that those few words are somehow "bad," and worse than every other word. It's the negativity assigned to the words, not the words themselves.
They're sounds used to convey an idea, people. You wouldn't like the idea they're used for any more if it was conveyed using different sounds. Quit getting wrapped up in how it comes across.
They're sounds used to convey an idea, people. You wouldn't like the idea they're used for any more if it was conveyed using different sounds. Quit getting wrapped up in how it comes across.
Preposterous.
If what they claim is true then after seeing Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (they use damn it) and subsequently any actually good movies I saw not long after that which contained swears, then I should be in a maximum security prison receiving an hourly sedative to stop foaming at the mouth.
This is the limit of silly. Personally, I swear so that if I'm really that pissed, I DON'T hit other people. Because hitting people, however much they require it, is not cool. I think my reasoning is pretty sound.
If what they claim is true then after seeing Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (they use damn it) and subsequently any actually good movies I saw not long after that which contained swears, then I should be in a maximum security prison receiving an hourly sedative to stop foaming at the mouth.
This is the limit of silly. Personally, I swear so that if I'm really that pissed, I DON'T hit other people. Because hitting people, however much they require it, is not cool. I think my reasoning is pretty sound.
I cannot believe no one has quoted xkcd yet.. http://xkcd.com/552/
One would think that *finger-quotes* researchers *finger-quotes* had to know such stuff...
Personally, I find profanity in games mostly amusing, I don't use it myself that much. Except of course when I fuckin' hurt people and spread rumors
One would think that *finger-quotes* researchers *finger-quotes* had to know such stuff...
Personally, I find profanity in games mostly amusing, I don't use it myself that much. Except of course when I fuckin' hurt people and spread rumors
What the fuck is that stupid shit supposed to mean?
Ehm, excuse me. What I originally intended to ask is if any of you ladies and gentleman would be so kind as to enlighten me in the matter at hand since my understanding of mentioned scientific conclusion seems to be somewhat flawed.
Seriously though... Really? I can swear all I want and not doing so is my conscious choice. I know vulgar terms in three (maybe four) languages (granted, my vocabulary is extensive only in two of them), however, I don't go around kicking elderly. Passive knowledge does not make someone prone to actively exercising it. I know how to pull a trigger yet I've never shot a gun.
Ehm, excuse me. What I originally intended to ask is if any of you ladies and gentleman would be so kind as to enlighten me in the matter at hand since my understanding of mentioned scientific conclusion seems to be somewhat flawed.
Seriously though... Really? I can swear all I want and not doing so is my conscious choice. I know vulgar terms in three (maybe four) languages (granted, my vocabulary is extensive only in two of them), however, I don't go around kicking elderly. Passive knowledge does not make someone prone to actively exercising it. I know how to pull a trigger yet I've never shot a gun.
People need to fucking stop doing these "reports", they're nothing but fabrications made by charlatans who want to be called heroes of society by right-wing fuckwits who have zero education (not that they ever had any).
Captcha: education opilea <-- What the fu-booom.
Captcha: education opilea <-- What the fu-booom.