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Lifer
A wise man once said, "If you don't occasionally get offended, you are not living in a free society."
Well, we are now living in a society where people have become hypersensitive to everything and actually get offended at minor things. Not only that, but the indignation assumed by someone having the nerve to make the offending statement has gone off the deepend.
Example - The finance minister (not exact title) of the state of California recently warned of the coming tsunami like budget crisis. This statement was idiotic and innapropriate, but the repurcussions are going to heard around the world and someone will ask this guy to retire... :roll:
Freedom of expression is an important fundamental right and we as a society are crushing it under the jackboot of political correctness.
I would like to challenege all of you to just take a step back the next time you get offended and to think about whether or not getting offended is any of the following:
1. a useful feeling in any way
2. a sign of your own weakness as a person
3. appropriate in the context the person was talking in
4. an opportunity to educate the person
5 an opening to razz the hell out of him for being a jackass.
Remember kids, just because you are offended, doesn't mean that you are entitled to anything - especially not the right to whine like a little bitch.
Well, we are now living in a society where people have become hypersensitive to everything and actually get offended at minor things. Not only that, but the indignation assumed by someone having the nerve to make the offending statement has gone off the deepend.
Example - The finance minister (not exact title) of the state of California recently warned of the coming tsunami like budget crisis. This statement was idiotic and innapropriate, but the repurcussions are going to heard around the world and someone will ask this guy to retire... :roll:
Freedom of expression is an important fundamental right and we as a society are crushing it under the jackboot of political correctness.
I would like to challenege all of you to just take a step back the next time you get offended and to think about whether or not getting offended is any of the following:
1. a useful feeling in any way
2. a sign of your own weakness as a person
3. appropriate in the context the person was talking in
4. an opportunity to educate the person
5 an opening to razz the hell out of him for being a jackass.
Remember kids, just because you are offended, doesn't mean that you are entitled to anything - especially not the right to whine like a little bitch.
