Warning! Large use of profanity within this article!

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One of my greatest pet peeve(s) is the over use of mock profanity or an extreme fear of bad words. Now I don’t mean you should be dropping the F-bomb in front of six year-olds; But I’m not apposed to saying “hell” or “damn” in front of them either, (within the correct context!)

When directed towards someone.

Now, profanity, cursing, swearing, so-on and so-forth, in my opinion are almost totally benign when not directed towards person(s).
It is rude to tell somebody to “Go to hell” or "[May] God damn you". Because you are openly wishing awful suffering upon them. But then, clean profanity isn’t any better; I doubt this ever happens but somebody yelling “Gosh darn you to heck!”, technically there is no profanity in the sentence but anybody with a knowledge of English can understand the intent, which is the exact same intent as “God damn you to hell”. So the open wish of harm/suffering is still conveyed within that statement with or without the use of contemporary profanity; Thus clean profanity can just be as hurtful as regular profanity.