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I think profanity has its place in fiction, but it can go to excess as well at which point it loses impact and the story suffers for it. In that way it's like dialect I think. Too much dialect distracts from the story. Filmmakers fall prey to something similar. They spend so much time building a model and showing it off on screen that the story stalls for a moment. In the end you shouldn't have anything in a story that isn't needed and I can imagine some authors forget that when they put too much profanity in their fiction.
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