BAD WORDS

The only time a word is bad is when a bad person uses it for bad intentions. We are the ones who make words sound bad by the way we choose to use them. Words can be so powerful that they can hurt and scar us forever. I believe that bad words are very important depending where you are and with who you are with. For example when you are by yourself and you are just tired of life and you deeply feel that the only way to get relief is by saying bad words, you should do it because other words will just not cut it. There is no such thing as a bad word but we make it a bad word by using it in a offensive way. We change and make words seem like bigger things when they have a small meaning. We also always seem to use euphemism which means that we change words to make them sound less offensive and we trick ourselves into thinking that just because we changed the word it is less harmful. We use soft language but the only thing that it does is take out the life in the meaning of words. For example we are afraid to call someone retarded because we have come up with different forms of using that word. We might call someone retarded because they are dumb and lack common sense but when there is a kid that is retarded because of a condition we are afraid to use that word so instead we use the word special. The only reason why we are afraid of using retarded is because we found a different way of using it which is the negative way. This is what I have learned and understood so far about bad words and the use of euphemism.