28 November, 2013

The rules: Causing offence


Anyone who has spent more than a little time in online discussion will probably have come across this little nugget:
You don’t have the right to not be offended.
It’s true; you don’t.

Saying something that you know is going to upset people can be a powerful way of getting your point across and making people think.
It can be.

However, using the ‘you don’t have the right to not be offended’ argument is usually the last (if not the first) refuge of a jerk.
  
 

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