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I don't think either of us were addressing the real issue, so I'll start over.
This reminds me of a story from Change of Heart.
If you're not familiar with signalling, I suggest reading up on it. A lot of human behavior is explained by it. People are built for politics. If you're in a group of people who have long hair and wear funny clothes and preach about the environment being great, then by doing the same thing you can show that you're loyal to them. If you really want to signal loyalty, you can burn your bridges with everyone else and do something crazy like getting arrested. If cut your hair and put on a suit, it signals that you're loyal to your workplace, and by extension not them. It might help the environment, but you're not built to save the environment. You're built to maximize inclusive genetic fitness, and politics is a great way to do it.
I think the same thing is going on here. You're not swearing because "fucking" is such an amazingly useful word. You're signalling something. If I had to guess, I'd say that you're signalling that you don't need us by burning your bridges with us.
Who is "us"? Is "us" those who live by LessWrong's philosophy? This community disagrees with my argument? But yes, I believe your conclusion is what I said outright... I use it because it is a trigger word to humans... It pisses them off, despite the fact that I may have said or written a thousand words of argument prior to dropping a human's trigger word that explains why ascribing emotion. and the emotion they do to their trigger word is irrational.
But why do you consider it important to piss people off? If you're just doing it for fun, I'd suggest doing it on YouTube or something so that you're not getting in the way of anything productive.