People put way, WAY, too much power into words. That includes insults like idiot, dolt, stupid, whatever, but especially swears and slurs. Shit piss fiuck cunt cocksucker mother****er tits. the "seven words that you can't say on television." Let's take a look at them and see why they are offensive. Shit. You can't say this. you can say crap sometimes, always poop, poo doodie etc. If you mean feces, that's just a thing you aren't supposed to talk about because people are squeamish, but if you mean bad, you can call anything crap, or poopy. nobody cares, unless you say shit. then people care. why? I don't know. Piss, same deal. you aren't supposed to talk about urine. If you do, you can say pee, wee, whiz, etc But the moment you say Piss, you crossed a line! Why? I dunno. ****. Same-ish as before. you aren't supposed to talk about sex. but if you do, making love, coitus, having relations, that's cool. Not ****, though.