If I portrayed offense that was not my goal. I'm not really offended by the situation at all and just tend to be overly blunt when making a statement.Spot1990 said:Well considering my stance is simply freedom of expression extends to expressing that you are offended and that while you are by no means required to back down or change what you said or did if you offened people you should at least consider whether or not you're ok with offending these people, could you just as easily not offend these people and after examining your behaviour then decide what you want to do, one way or the other, because we should all try to do our best to make sure we treat others with dignity and respect and that is just as much a part of growing up as learning to let things go, I'd argue there's at least three types of people and probably many more because people are generally complex and there's many grey areas in the world.vIRL Nightmare said:In my mind it comes down to this. There are many kinds of people in the world and you can kind of generalize them in 2 over arching groups. The chill people who know how to relax and take a joke and are accepting of many things and people even if they themselves don't necessarily participate, then there are the people that can't let anyone have fun or relax and believe anything against their perfect little ideal is evil and wrong and no one is allowed.
People fail to understand that they don't need to, nor do we want them to, be offended for some one elses sake and blow things out of proportion. But what do I know.
I certainly agree with the general direction I think you think in. That said I need to be honest with you, I stopped caring if I've offended people. I have my past horror stories, most of us do, and this isn't the place I give a long sob story. However when I was growing up it was "cool" to mistreat people like me, probably a lot of us here, for what we were. I got over it. The difference I'm seeing here is that where in my situation I could have, "sucked it up and stand up for myself" People are interpreting this as bullying people who can't do that. The intention I find admirable, but the act is as I've said a teenage Soap Opera in execution. I'm not saying go out and be a bigot and not care about the others around you, I realize my comment may lead one to believe that. I do believe however that there are a lot of people, in this very thread even to prove my point, that takes a very little issue like a Halloween costume and blows it out of proportion when there are much bigger and important issues that all this energy can be used for. As to the carrying about offending people comment I opened with, the fact that I exist offends loads of people. I accept this fact. We all should probably consider it at least and I continue on.