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Originally Posted by hershie
You must be very narrow minded and unsympathetically ideological about something or other to not see the difference between being enlightened on such a subject and seeing red when someone uses such an inflammatory and derogatory term at you. Like I said, that was the only time in the past 22 years that I have in a fight. I hope (but doubt it) that gives you an indication of just how offensive this is to some.
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I thought about it for a couple of minutes, and I think that our difference in views on this subject is due to my lack of understanding of offense as an emotion. I either haven't experienced the emotion of offense or none of us have because of it not existing as such. Based on my experience of seeing people become offended, they way they become offended, and the issues they take offense to, I think it is logical for me to suspect that being offended is really just a nice term for adults having infantile reactions to the reality of not being able to have it their way all the time. Do you have any input on this?
-I'm being serious.