Telling The Truth

Mr.Dye presented an interesting prompt about always telling the truth in a story. Such as life in a gang. Should a writer repeat every single worf for word that a gang member would say, should he cut out the swearing and immoral behavior? What I think is, is that immorality for the sake of immorality is dead writing, it has no meaningful effect on a reader. For example, you're watching a commercial about a movie with an interesting story, historical event you learned about or a good book you read, well guess what, at the end of it it says that it's is rated R. Probably because of that "one scene"or something. That's meaningless immorality. Now if you were to write a story about a real life gang experience or something, swearing may not necessarily be a bad thing completely. If the gang members always used clean language wouldn't it set sort of a strange unrealistic atmosphere? Because that's not how a gang life is. Sometimes it is used for the developement of the character or the way the writer wants a character portrayed. I'm not in favor of immorality, don't get me wrong, but there are some, not all, situations in which swearing would be sort of in a way be appropriate. Personally I would never write anything with immoral ideas because there are plenty of good moving stories with no immorality, which tend to be the more powerful ones. So, in conclusion, I would just have to say that it depends on the realtionships, characters, and situtions in a story.