Swearing is, on balance, a negative influence on society

"With that said, I wish to remind readers that the resolution uses the words ‘on balance’. Essentially, I need only argue that the negatives are greater than the positives; I don’t need to argue against the existence of positives, although I can."You dont have to, I understand there are downsides to swearing and I am here just to present a case that swearing does have positive effects that are enough to make swearing overall negligible. "I think readers really ought to just realise the depth of what Imabench has conceded as negative impacts. Readers, do remember the impacts I listed in R2. These concessions result in swearing being agreed to have many major negative impacts / influences on society."Maybe you forgot your own rules? Round 2 and 3 were to advance arguments and then clash. Seeing as how you went ahead and gave 8000 characters of your own arguments I am not going to present 7000 characters of counter arguments and leave only 1000 to present my own case. "1. All examples of swearing and their impacts (bar the video of Kevin Rudd, but he conceded the impacts of that)"How am I supposed to argue against examples? deny they exist? As for their impacts I did argue that, you argued that they make people elss civil I argued that they let people better express themselves and thus the effects cancel out. "2. Swearing helps promote different gender standards"I argued that swearing didnt promote different class standards, which was the main point of your argument regarding Distinctions of character, and the gender standards were a small part of your overall argument which I responded too. As for "promoting different gender standards" All that is argued by the pro is that it is more acceptable for men to swear then for women to swear because women are more civilized and graceful then men are, meaning that society holds women in higher honor then they do men when it comes down to speech. Its not swearing's fault that society doesnt like it when women swear, its societies fault. Replace swearing with public urination and look at the example again. Even though it is frowned upon it is more distateful when a woman urinates in public than when a man does. That doesnt mean its public urination's fault though, its society's. "3. Foundational aspects of swearing arguments (he does say that there are long term beneficial effects by betraying morality and rationality, yet otherwise he completely conceded this section)"So your argument is that I dropped this argument if you ignore the part where I responded to this argument..... You gave your point, I gave my counter point. Im not going to argue that swearing isnt chivalrous so give me a break already. You showed how swearing is bad because it isnt civil, I showed how it since it allows people to express their true shock, frustration, disbelief, etc and not cause stress later that this aspect of swearing balances out how impolite it can be and make swearing overall neutral. "4. That swearing isn’t civil / polite and the nature of my introductory scenario"Of course I dropped that argument how could I argue against it? Jesus, at this point if I didnt argue if Apples werent Green youd think the Pro would hold that against me too....."5. Swearing doesn’t describe accurately in a literary sense (he does argue about emotion and such, yet the actual meaning of the words being less accurate was conceded)"How can you claim I dropped an argument when even you admit I argued against it? Same argument as number 3, im moving on now I already wasted 4,000 characters on Pro's accusations that I dropped half his arguments..."I will agree swearing can, for some people, be an effective way of releasing anger."Please note how I am not going to be a dick about this and list it as arguments dropped by the Pro." You’re mad and you complain to somebody who gets mad about the same thing. Guess what? Now you’re both mad and no better off."So it comes down to this. Not swearing allows someone to get away with something stupid while the person speaking cant express their true frustration which will surely lead to stress later on which is harmful to ones health. On the other hand we have swearing which allows people to express their anger and the other person has to realize whether or not theyve messed up badly. If a mother drowns her four children in a bathtub is the father who comes home and find this not allowed to swear because it might hurt the mothers feelings? I didnt think so either. "Not letting things faze you so easily and being rational are both good things, and the release of anger is not conducive to either"There is a time to be civil and I time to really release your frustration because even science has proved that bottling up all your anger only will cause you health problems later on in life. http://www.newburyportnews.com...http://www.marriagesherpa.com..."Of course, other words besides swear words release anger, and I ask my readers when they need to release such a large amount of anger that no other words besides swear words will do?"Well of course other words release anger, but swear words are simply the best at releasing it, can you think of words that release more anger than swear words?"So, Con’s main argument is only valid in situations of the need to release extreme anger, and frankly, the other considerations far outweigh this potential (if that) benefit."How nice of you to just shimmy the word "extreme" in there just to justify your case. Swear words can release minimal to large amounts of anger depending on whether they are muttered softly and unheard by others (which leaves them unharmed and help you feel better) or screamed at the top of your lungs, now which of those two happens more often now? the answer is the first. So swearing can help you release anger in a way where nobody else is hurt no matter how much or how little anger ends up being lifted off your shoulders. "I said here that these barriers were in part due to perception of lower classes swearing. Therefore, the barriers are real and imaginary"You might want to pick just one...."The question is, yet again, are there other effective ways to do what swearing does? Yes"List 5 ways that can help people quickly and immediately alleviate large amounts of anger that isnt worse then swearing."My point was that the media swarmed over this statement and it totally distracted from proper news and policy discussions in the media for a good week."Well then blame the media for being so distracted by meaningless things in the first place then, dont blame the swear words for being distracting because they arent, the media just chooses to make it that way so therefore its the media's fault that they are so obsessed when someone swears, its not swearings fault. "one can have humour of a similar quality by substituting out the swear words"It may be of similar quality but it is not of equal or greater quality because swearing releases the most amount of anger and it also just happens to release the most amounts of hilarity given the context. "on a larger scale swearing can create an environment with more anger, less civility"And replace it with an environment of less stress since it releases anger instead of bottling it up while preserving civility since curse words can be muttered under ones breath and affect no one while helping an individual release anger. Swearing doesnt always cause anger, in most cases it releases it so people can be happier later. F*ck me im already out of characters.... If Pro is going to rub in everything I allegedly dropped then I might as well emphasize how the Pro has completely dropped the argument that swearing is proven to help people deal with pain (see first youtube video above)