Are you sure that you have reached this conclusion because you are mature and understand the ways of the world, or are you unwilling to go against the culture you live in?
We insult each other in America, also, it is common for friends to call each other "gay", or anything else that now refers to one's homosexuality, and we are not supposed to take offense, because it is all done in friendliness.
James thought it was important to write a chapter of an epistle on this matter, James 3.
"8But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
9Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.
10Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be. "
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