I already do, somewhat. The place where I work is full of casual profanity, and I’m neither particularly distracted nor morally offended by it. But the mechanism my brain is using appears to involve flagging each context separately in terms of profanity use rather than deciding that profanities in general are more or less acceptable. As such, LW is a low-profanity environment and any use of profanity is an instant attention-hijack.
I’m not saying that LW is the place to work on it, but might it be worth your while to at least partially desensitize yourself to profanity?
I already do, somewhat. The place where I work is full of casual profanity, and I’m neither particularly distracted nor morally offended by it. But the mechanism my brain is using appears to involve flagging each context separately in terms of profanity use rather than deciding that profanities in general are more or less acceptable. As such, LW is a low-profanity environment and any use of profanity is an instant attention-hijack.