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It's strange how the word 'cunt' seems like such a natural choice of invective for assuaging one's frustration at the stupid behaviour of others, especially on the road, and yet we do look askance when our children copy us. It might seem hypocritical to chide my son when he spices up his latest excoriation of parental injustice with the F word, but I guess that's why we have 18 certificates on films and games and the like, so as not to warp their 'tiny little minds'. As with alcohol and sex and funfair rides, and buying scissors apparently, we impose age restrictions, under which we decree that a person may not make responsible use of an item. I'm trying to protect my children from religion as well, until they're old enough to make an informed decision themselves. Is it fair? Is anything 'fair'?
I think fundamentally it comes down to trying to make our existence and our children's existence and all that as painless as possible. So social norms about what is nice and what isn't come about, swearing isn't nice. This offends people. Rather than lecture our children on the 'its just words, but the words have meaning, but not everyone interprets the same meaning, it depends on context', which is quite complicated, it's easier to just say 'this is a naughty word, dont say it'.
Pretty much everyone learns in time when it is, and isn't, appropriate to use swearwords.