(I was going to respond with a smart-arsed comment but need to grow up at this stage and your post is interesting)
Cursing shows a certain lack of lack of emotional control (and possibly of eloquence, although I've heard quite a few flowery cursewords in my time) but I don't think, kept within boundaries and depending on the context, that it is such a major social faux pas. In terms of keeping one's emotions in check, we'd all like to be perfectly calm, rational people and sail through life without a hiccough but fact is that we experience minor irritants throughout the day and need some sort of vent for them; cursing in my opinion is a fairly innocent way of dealing with it. Of course it's immature, but to the level that most of us won't reach full maturity till our dying day, and I'd certainly not lower my overall respect for someone based on a few curse words.
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