> Swearing might be dumb if used to express harsh, negative opinions among people you don't know. If anyone expresses "harsh, negative opinions among people yo

> Swearing might be dumb if used to express harsh, negative opinions among people you don't know. If anyone expresses "harsh, negative opinions among people you don't know", the dumbness does not lie on whether they swear or not while conveying these opinions. You might as well complain about how dumb exclamation marks are.