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Comment by papandada

5 years ago

Well, "bad words" may be vulgarities, profanities, or obscenities. As a layman I would say it's not the word itself but the concept which crosses some moral boundary.

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tzfld  5 years ago

That is the question after all. Why the activity/concept described by the word is considered crossing moral boundary. Moral boundary of who?

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