Expletives Should Never be Used

In response to my opponent's first argument I'd say that people being offended is enough. If people get seriously hurt and offended, then that's a good enough reason for us not to use them as a society. Why would we keep doing something that has a high chance of offending someone? My opponent's argument is the equivalent to arguing that we should allow bullying to go on in schools. It has a high chance of seriously hurting someone, but my opponent's argument is the equivalent to arguing that bullying should continue because of right of free speech. However, isn't the fact that the bullying hurts the person more important than free speech? This applies to expletives. If it hurts people, then why should our society use them? Also, with discriminatory expletives it's very easy to make something that wasn't intended to be discriminatory into a discriminatory expletive depending on perspective. Depending on the person, one person may view something as not being discriminatory, whereas another person may be very offended and feel that they're being discriminated against. Overall, people being offended is a good enough reason for expletives to not be used. Secondly, my opponent argues that children overhearing expletives being bad is an opinion. I'd agree it is an opinion, but this whole debate, and every other debate on this site is a matter of opinion. Therefore, I am of the opinion that children should not overhear expletives. It's extremely damaging, and when children call each other the expletives and try it out; it's even more likely to ruin friendships than it is for adults. It will probably also get the children into big trouble. I challenge my opponent to provide examples where children overhearing expletives is good. Secondly, about it being the responsibility of the parents; sometimes the parents don't do enough good research. If they don't do the research, then it's too late. Once the children have heard the expletives, there's a problem. This problem wouldn't be a problem if the artist never used expletives. It would be a lot better for the children. Also, even with adults, why should we use expletives in our society when they're so hurtful? It would be a lot better if we cut them out. Overall, expletives should not be used because there is a big risk that children could overhear them, and they are offensive words. Thirdly, even though Shakespeare may have put that scene in, what did it actually add? They could have had an argument over something else. Shakespeare could still have used his amazing and stunning language without this being the instigator for this scene. Even if the some of the best pieces of art do use expletives, there are many which don't. There can still be great art without expletives, and it is unnecessary in any piece of art as it can be offensive. There was no need for these pieces of art to use expletives, and they can still have the amazing effect that they have on readers. Also, I'd like to debate the other point in this paragraph: the point about there being bad expression. This would be a great debate in itself, and it's one I'd like to have. However, if my opponent wishes to pursue that point further, I'd argue that there is such a thing as bad expression. If something is inappropriate or offensive, then why isn't it right to call it bad? If something ruins people's lives, hurts people, and damages friendships then it's bad. It's had bad effects on people, and therefore, I'd argue that it could be called bad. It's an interesting debate in itself, and I'm happy to pursue it further if my opponent is. Overall, expletives don't add anything to art, and they can offend viewers potentially; especially, if they are young. I'd like to ask my opponent here about how they can possibly argue the opposite of expletives should never be used without suggesting that it could be appropriate to use them. The exact opposite would be expletives can be used, or expletives can sometimes be used. It's impossible to say that expletives can't never be used without arguing that they can be used. If my opponent is arguing this, then their argument doesn't make sense. It doesn't make sense what they're arguing for in this case. Overall, I'd just like to ask my opponent how they can be saying that expletives should not never be used without saying that expletives can be used. I'm not arguing that expletives always damage relationships. That's not what I'm trying to argue. I'm arguing that expletives have a high chance of damaging relationships, and they should not be used because of this high risk. It can do this because someone can take serious offense, or a joke can turn discriminatory. Expletives make a statement that is probably offensive anyway even worse. It can cause a serious amount of damage. Again I'm not saying that someone will want to kill themselves over one expletive alone. I'm saying that expletives over a longer period of time can make people want to kill themselves. High school is a good example where this could happen. I think that my opponent would agree that if someone was laughed at for a long enough time because of their race or because they were gay; it could make them want to kill themselves. It's happened in the past. Expletives can aid that. If someone is called an expletive to aid the discrimination, it can then make them want to kill themselves faster or have a larger desire. Expletives in themselves can be an extremely painful form of discrimination. It probably won't do that with one single expletive, but over a long period of time; it can seriously damage people even to the extent where they may think of suicide. Overall, expletives used for discrimination or by calling someone expletives over a long enough time may have extreme consequences such as suicide. My opponent follows with the argument about children. However, I think my opponent could agree that children often don't think about their actions, and once they know the word, it could be damaging. If someone has a five year old child, they go to a movie with them thinking there will be nothing bad, and then they hear an expletive; the parent could take the child out, but the child's still heard. The parent can sit down with the child and talk about how they're never to use that word. However, the child may not listen or understand how bad it is. They could go and talk about it to their friends the next day. Then from this the expletive has spread. My point is that they child may not listen, or they may want to try out using the word. They might also get really frustrated and use it as a resource for their anger. It's much less risky if the child could never hear the expletive in the first place. Overall, there were many flaws in my opponent's argument. They cannot see how damaging expletives can be and what they can do over time. I believe that expletives offending people is enough. If they offend a lot of people, and we assign bad meanings to these words as a society; then why would we want to use them? That's enough of a reason in itself. Overall, expletives shouldn't be used because of the amount of harm that can potentially be created by them.