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Why should one group of people acquiesce to another group of people's demands just because they claim offensiveness.

Should everyone live to the strictest thinkable standards because somewhere out there is a semi-large group of people who find your behavior offensive?

Such semi-large groups might be religions for example that take various kinds of behaviors you take for granted as offensive.



It's not that you have to. It's a social grace to not offend people. If you really want to, you are allowed to. But when society says to fuck off -- well, you got what you paid for.




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