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Thank you Stompy for saying what I was going to say.
I don't use expletives very heavily, but I do use them daily, and I also consider myself to be a fairly intelligent person. The words that I use don't degrade my "arguments," if I'm making one, they just add emphasis to something that I am saying, feeling, doing, whatever.
For example, if one of my buddies asks me to get him a pop, and he's been a dick all day, I won't just say "No," I'd be more likely to say "Hell no!" or "Fuck no!"
Now, I can kind of see what john_713 is saying by "it's not explaining themselves," because I chose to use a curse word instead of saying "No, you have been a jerk all day, so I won't get you a pop."
With that said, honestly, which statement would sound more awkward or cause some sort of "social discomfort?" Me saying "Fuck no!" or me giving that long explanation. I can tell you right now that if I gave that long explanation around any of my friends, they would look at me wierdly and it would create all sorts of awkward tension. In other words, cursing is an expression of who I am, and that doesn't make me worse of a person.
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