What is an hour of your time worth?

Answer 1

I guess there are bad words because sometimes we want to communicate bad things. We want to yell at someone, or offend them, or tell them that we hate them. Most bad words are about emphasis, but they aren't used in polite society because we are emphasizing something negative. We make up rude words for other races or groups of people because we don't relate to them, and we don't like them because they are different. We call people we know rude things because we're angry or we are trying to build our own egos by stepping on others. Maybe if we were all really good all the time, we wouldn't have a use for bad words anymore. ... But for now, people still want to emphasize negative things, mock, scorn, and offend... and so there are words that accomodate those desires.