I've known some people who considered religious curses inherently "aggressive", on the principle that blasphemy is an offense against god instead of the other p

I've known some people who considered religious curses inherently "aggressive", on the principle that blasphemy is an offense against god instead of the other people around you. But even the people who would chastise someone for swering in a crisis had the sense to wait for the end of that crisis. I'd imagine that as much as anything, this is about 911 dispatching being a thoroughly unnatural role. On one end of the phone, it's a life-and-death crisis, but on the other it's the twelfth call of an eight-hour shift. Miscommunication across that kind of gap seems inevitable.