Assignment 5: An increase in profanity (foul language) is indicative of a decline in society's morals.

Back in the good old days people were good. Everyone knew what morals were and they tried hard to stick on the right side of the moral line. They didn't swear, showed a great deal of respect and self-control, and tried to hold high profiles for good reputation for thier families. So what happend? It wasn't long ago when something along human's timeline switched and new generations arose full of hatred, disrespect, and foul language. Today even women are heard swearing, which someone, 100 years ago, would be astonished to know. I believe that an increase in foul language does play a role indicating the decline of society's morals. Foul language indicates disrespect, lack of proper grammer, and comes across as being 'slack'. It's disrespectful to speak profanity, although many people would disagree with me, because it shows you don't care what authority thinks or says about you when you continually use foul language. Years ago, many farmers would use foul language because they did not have proper grammer, as we do now, and that is why they didn't know better . Lastly, profanity shows disrespect towards authority. For instance, how would you feel if your teacher would yell out foul language when trying to teach you a subject? That student would, obviously, not feel welcome or respected. Or how would the country react if the president/prime minister spoke profanity in their speeches? We would all agree they come across as immature and lacking morals. Lastly, profanity shows disregard to others around us, such as children, and a lack of self-control. That is why many people's morals are declining resulting in profanity.

I do not think that a simple word can indicate declining morals for someone's life. Morality is a set of beliefs distinguishing between right and wrong behaviours. Knowing that, the words you use to speak do not reflect what you believe is right and wrong, especially if you are not using profanity towards somebody. To many people foul language is not "foul" and is only used when in distress or frustration. So then, how can we say that just because someone speaks "profanity" they have declining morals and cannot understand the difference between right and wrong? That is absolutely not up to us to judge a person's morals based on the words they speak. Also, many countries have completely different views on profanity. For example, many words such as 'damn' and/or 'hell' are considered "bad" in the USA and Canada when in Australia, those words are used as everyday words and are not considered profanity. Lastly, why do people use words such as 'heck', 'frick', or 'dang', trying to substitute foul language when they think profanity is wrong. Is it not any different? Change a couple letters around in those words and you are "cussing" just the same. In conclusion, words are words and the way a person speaks should not make people assume they have declining morals.