Swearing is annoying, Am I right?

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No disrespect to those who are sensitive to hearing curse words but I actually like them and find them to be an enhancement to the language, kind of like hot sauce on food.

My next question....
Does substituting words like "heck, "dang" or "fricking" constitute hypocrisy?

Inserting such colouration claims the status of a swear word, but without taking responsibility for the offense originally intended.

Heck and dang soften the blow and are less jarring than swear words. Fricking not as much. I don't think they're hypocritical. I think they're kind of quaint.

Some of us handle social interactions based on rules, rather than reading the facial expressions and body language of the people we are talking to like normal people.
When folks swear they are breaking the rules and this causes anxiety because our social interactions are based on rules.
It is hard for us to decide how to proceed.

This may be less of an issue if grew up in an environment where swearing was considered normal.

something like what the heck seems okay to me, i think swearing is ok but i don't really care for swearing all the time or like every second word/sentence it is used. if it is used sparingly but when justified i think it is fine.

I don't see why even military folks have be "sophisticated as hell", if you know what I mean.

^ Obviously, some people DO think that. I think so, but I use them anyway sometimes because I like being dorky in a Ned Flanders sort of way now and then. My personal favorite is “fiddlesticks,” but I mostly just use the F word these days. Obscenities do serve various purposes linguistically. It’s strange that we still have hangups about them.