The Easily Offended

[nero_bolt]

People today are so easily offended.

Its something we see on a daily basis on here from some,  people constantly state that they are offended by this or that or this post or that post and it’s something we see on a daily basis in the real world and on the news.   Someone always seems to take offense to minor issues and free speech and has to tell the world and tell us all that they are "OFFENDED" or take "OFFENSE" at this or that

One of the lessons that most of us learned at an early age was, "sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me."  When I grew up it wasn't called "bullying," it was called teasing and having a bit of fun at each other’s expense  and we grew thick skin from it and got on with life.  NOW so many people are offended by so many minor things.

Maybe today's world and the soft***** (soft roosters) need to grow a little thick skin  and stop being so easily offended by everything.

So thoughts, are some to easily offended and take offense to everything.

[aps1080]

Mug

They just are.

[twyngwyn]

[youcandoityoucandoityoucandoit]

twyngwyn, that could be a little subtle for some..

[aps1080]

Thats the thing.

You can have a normal conversation and stick to most peoples rules, but someone can all of a sudden takes offence to one word you use.

How are you to know ?

[icyfroth]

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@youcandoityoucandoityoucandoit wrote:

twyngwyn, that could be a little subtle for some..

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this is not about you, youcan

[evil_akuma_2002]

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@aps1080 wrote:
Thats the thing.

You can have a normal conversation and stick to most peoples rules, but someone can all of a sudden takes offence to one word you use.

How are you to know ?

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Aye...there's the rub! How DO you accomodate everyone's sensibilities?

Given that every person on this planet that is, has been and ever will be, interprets the same information in differing ways, means that there's always going to be someone who doesn't play by society's standard rules - and takes offfense.

As a classic example, there's over 30,000 christian sects in the USA alone - each and every one just as fervent as the next, that their interpretation of the bible is the one true reading, and all others are false!

So given that just this one book can cause such enormous controversies, our words and their meanings can be open to a vast array of differing standpoints.

As far as I'm concerned, I'll try to stay within reasonable societal boundaries when I talk or write, and if someone takes offense to something, then they are free to discuss their interpretation with me - or man up and wear it!

[aps1080]

So given that just this one book can cause such enormous controversies, our words and their meanings can be open to a vast array of differing standpoints.

Look at the controversy when I used nig nog the other day, i meant one thing, it has a racist meaning.

The other thing that pees me off is when they change historical things - the name of a dog in the Dambusters film being the obvious one.

[twyngwyn]

I don't think anything is 'offensive' in itself....it's like art....it's in the eye of the beholder....so you choose whether to be offended or not

[youcandoityoucandoityoucandoit]

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@icyfroth wrote:

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@youcandoityoucandoityoucandoit wrote:

twyngwyn, that could be a little subtle for some..

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this is not about you, youcan

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Excuse me?

Did I say it was about me?

[aps1080]

Twy

Exactly. I argued that point the other day, that it was they who put a meaning on the words nig nog that I wasn't applying to them.

When I go to the NT, the aborigines cll us 'whities' or whites. If you said you were offended, i reckon you'd get laughed at.