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I think that's okay to ask for respect whenever you feel ofended by someone or something, but I feel that this is getting way too far with people's (over) sensibility. Don't know if you get the idea of what I'm saying but it's really annoying to deal with people like that
If I post I don't like to do/eat/play something, then someone will immediately feel I'm attacking them and start arguing and making a discussion out of nothing more than an opinion (I'm talking about giving opinions about something not insulting people for what they do or think)

Don't know if you agree with this, but I really want to know if you feel the same or it's just me. Let me know your opinions  ;)

As long as it doesn't crosses a certain limit, no one must be declared immune to criticism. Even heads of state and religious leaders are not immune to criticism. But the targeted party should also take it in a light way, rather than killing everyone who criticize them (just like what happened with the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists).

It's possibly mild Autism in some cases where people have difficulty understanding that other people have different views.

In the past people had beliefs and people understood that other people had different beliefs. Today many people don't acknowledge that a different belief even exists. This may be somewhat caused by people being more and more insecure and weak and to protect their fragile emotions they adopt a way of thinking where they don't acknowledge the existance of things which make them feel uncomfortable.

This is a dilusional personality disorder and it can be quite dangerous as you get people doing some really unsafe things because they don't allow themselves to consider the potential danger involved, because that is uncomfortable. The result of this is a nanny state where people are made to memorize lots of safety rules without being expected to think about why these rules were given to them.

Some people are so sensitive and get offended easily but that only depends on the situation. They feel offended easily because they took things so seriously and they are uncomfortable on any circumstances.

We have differences as human, we must always be concious of what we say and what we do. Respect is always the highest form of good manner.

I am extremely offended by this topic. I demand a public apology by the OP.

I think that the reason why is because of our culture today. We now feel entitled we mask everything through feminism, or for human rights but really we are overusing and misusing the power of these beliefs and activities. What we should do is to have a clear education on what is and what is not and be mindful that the opinion of others matter but do not neccessarily mean that they are against us

Our world has been developed by technologies and even the personal traits of people will changed. People feel so offended by everything nowadays because of what they've been acquired in social media. For example, they red a post in social media and they reacted quickly without thinking that they are not part of it. This characteristics has been the characteristics of individuals.

from what I've seen with people, they mostly get offended when something hits their core beliefs about themselves. that could be because of something general like religion or race, or something more specific and personal, for e.g., a person who relishes in his leadership skills, believes it to be the one of his strong suits, would easily get offended if someone bettered him at that. It all stems from the insecurity inside, the feeling that what the other person may be saying could actually be true. This leads to the person to get offended, which kind of works like a denial-defence mechanism, to protect the persons inner identity and integrity.
Atleast this is what I've observed in people around me.

We can't really know for sure what offends other people because they're different from one another. Though i kind of agree that some are being over righteous especially in this age of social media. Information i think is way too easily spread that it also would be easier to deliberately offend people with insensitive comments.

i feel so offended with your spelling...
:D

Somehow when social media boost up every person has got their position and rights on their own. Now it doesnt matter what you say or what you do everyone will say something about anything. We are living in this generation where in if you say your fart smells bad they will get offended and when you say its smells good you will bombarded.

This, we live in an age where most people use facebook and they are so used to hear nothing but cheers on their actions and their beliefs that when someone express a different view they cannot tolerate it, also with social media everyone feels like they are a rock star and that their opinion are gold when in fact no one cares.

I feel you bro i guess this is the cause of watching to much Tv drama most of these people are teenagers in todays age you can't even post a thing cause some people might get hurt. They may think high and mighty of themselves and doesn't accept any opinions from others as long as they see it as wrong. They're  more like drones that can't think logically i guess after watching to many dramas in televisions they were also influenced by it then made their life look like one unknowingly. Some cause of this is social media, people has been treated nicely in social media platforms and if something goes against their beliefs they immediately get offended by it.

I understand where you're coming from! People nowadays gets easily offended by personal views and beliefs.  It's like it's so bad to  have an opinion and we should just all not believe in anything. It's ironic thought how they mask it with what they say respect, but hope they would also respect other's views and not take it personally! Where has this overly sensitive emotional state came from anyway? We all have rights and emotions are valid becaue it we have different experiences and backgrounds. But hey, being offended in almost everything blurs out the line between what is right and wrong. Hope we soon get back to being rational and balance out these emotions.

Well because theoratically speaking, it seems that people might think you are just draghing some attention along or just asking some kind of sympathy and attention among readers. Well I do to sometimes when it is already nonsense, but I don't actually speak for it or comment anything, I just keep it within me and just don't mind, everyone has its own business, so for me as much as possible I don't want to interfere with it.

Its because some people are close minded and they have forgotten to just smile or laugh at it if it does not a big deal at all. It isn't really necessary to share your opinion as long as it does not concern you but for little things, we should not just react and argue later

because freedom is an illusion and it's in human nature to be offended and act and sound different so they can look unique

I think it's the effect of staying to much on social media. Since social media sites like facebook, twitter, etc. became famous almost all people became judgmental and triggered easily. It's just like they're over using their freedom to speak their own minds. Just like when you post something stupid, and someone would say something good or bad and even some people would even argue because of other's comment. This kind of attitude that they do on social media were sometimes carried out in the real world when their dealing with people personally.

Some people are just close minded or even get affected by things easily. I mean if you were offended you really deserve respect from the people who offended you. That's how things should go. But, in our generation now, people look at them as if their high and almighty. People are swallowed by pride. Some would even get angry instead of apologizing if they commit mistake.

Blame it all on the PC culture. Sure, decency is at least expected in public discourse but PC has gone so far that the mere mention of things they deem offensive and you immediately get labelled various unflattering titles. Everything should be open for discussion.

The only "safe space" needed is a space where anyone can share their views, whatever those are and no matter how offensive that seem to others, provided they are not attacking anyone personally .


I don't think there's any way to NOT offend those. Our very existence as NOT them is offensive enough.

I think it's because people are becoming sensitive, short tempered and narrow minded nowadays. Well, maybe it's one of the effect of technology and social media. People are becoming lazy, they get easily mad whenever they get bothered. Because of social media people tend to criticize and judge things that are not within their scope.

Inherently discriminatory belief systems will inevitably lead to discriminatory behavior (reactions). To help myself with overcoming being [over] sensible, I keep on asking whether it keeps on making sense in a logical way or not, if I were to momentarily try (and succeed) to put aside the belief I foster about the issue being discussed. This of course, is a task not easily accomplished, but well worth a try.  ;)

That can be true but I think the the reverse is the bigger issue. People are more fearful and prefer not no interact in person anymore. This tendency to be fearful and offended easily is the same reason for why people create their screen interfaced virtual world and spend their time on that. Both ways are true, your idea and my idea, in my opinion.

Every person needs privacy, that's why it's so insensitive of you, if you talk about someone's personal life in public. It's like that you're stripping the person in front of the crowd and it's really offending, ya know! 

Hi OP I do agree with you. There are a lot of sensitive people as well as insensitive ones. But every joke that we make should be regulated I mean, joking someone mean offending them for some, and so when you restrict a joke it does not become very funny at all. This is just an example. Every words we say became a little bit more of an issue. Every words posted, became a negative image of the poster and considered as an insensitive people. People think too much and makes everuthing complicated nowadays.

ahahhahah I'm working on it

What I find funny is that there seem to be discrimination on what can be offended. I mean, just say the word "Islam" and you'll have even LGBT people harassing you, same with "black", but when you say "white" and Christian, it seems it's OK to offend them all you want.

I'm not white nor Christian but I find it hypocritical that these supposedly warriors of social justice don't find it offensive whenever those two concepts are attacked.


LOL, hilarious. Dilbert almost always have a grain of truth into it that they manage to make funny.


Good for you. Glad you are on your way to a more mindful existence.

Its human nature. Perhaps what you're noticing is the fact that we now live on a planet where, compared to the past, many more people, and all types of people, have a voice.

This topic should have a trigger warning  :) .

Society is drifting towards valuing feels over facts.

Because any fracture in the conditionning of the hive mind will compromize the all. So rather than adress the potential fault line they will react against the messanger rather than the message making the fracture or asymetry between reality and it's perception only wider and the collapse funnier:).

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Because nowadays this new generation didn´t had the discipline of the older ones :)

You should watch league of legend pro replays...

Discipline in a video game doesn´t convince me life is more than that...

I really dont know why people get so offended with just a simple statement. I guess it has something to do in today's generation. In our current time, people often judge someone by giving out their opinionated ideas on what is right and what should be done rather than just letting the victim be free of what they want to say, they act as if they know a lot and that their decisions and advices matter. People have the free will to judge someone because of their access to various medias in the internet. They express themselves more than before to the point that it becomes too much.

I agree with you.  Every post I saw on social media is about their feelings.  That they were betrayed or mistreated by someone especially with people they do not know.  Strangers that caused them to be hurt.  Those people posting the bad happenings on social media wants sympathy to other people to validate and prove that they are the right one.  I just do not vie those post made by my friends.  Actually I do not want anymore to open my fb.

Western culture went soft over the years and that's thanks to the PC culture.

Prior to everyone being on the internet, people with stupid opinions would've been quieted by their peers through a variety of social pressures.  Now everyone can anonymously indulge their idiocy and have it be reinforced by the numerous other idiots online causing it to multiply.  They get the idea that no matter how crazy their view is that it's valid, when in reality it isn't and most people shouldn't care about it.

People behave in a such a way that they can't get away with in a face to face interaction.  Protip - internet isn't serious business.  Ignore the triggered morons like the social outcasts they really are and go about your life, it's not worth your time.

Ya. There are too sensitive people everywhere. Sometimes you would post something in the social medial about something concerning yourself and some who is not even related will just flare up by giving too bloody reactions. They will tell you the post concerns them or you are pinpointing on them. My opinion on what to do is, be less exposed. Be reserved and show up less. Less words less mistake policy.   

Well,the truth is that people have been alienated from each other and the reason from this is the development of the technology.I believe αλσo that this behavior is caused by the feeling of complex and Self-centeredness.

It is not that people are becoming more offended these days, it is the fact that people have become rude and if you start to care you are degraded and looked at as weak. We are humans and allowed to care about our feelings. Those dismissing feelings should not be allowed to get away with it, that is a reflection of the anger that they hold within themselves.

You will agree with me that we are living in an unjust society today, where every one is perceived as an enemy until proven otherwise.
People living on assumption instead of facts and that has affected our sense of judgment in most cases.
People become offended easily this day cause their judge your action without even taking the time to know ur reason for those actions.

According to my observation, putting effort into something that can change their economic status or improve it but not getting positive responds as expected. And those expected to understand are even making things difficult.

It's simple, really: as serious offenses became practically nonexistent, the tolerance for more minor offenses decreased. So things that used to be brushed off or ignored completely started getting more focus because things that were actually serious simply didn't happen anymore.

Example: back in the day, a serious offense would be a public lynching for an interracial couple. As that became a thing of the past, the threshold for serious offense was reduced to racial slurs. As that became a thing of the past, the threshold was reduced again to simple racial descriptors. And once that becomes a thing of the past, the threshold will be reduced even further.

Good news is I think we're at the peak of just how intolerant of offense you can get before people simply stop taking you seriously.

I think part of it is crybullying. If I claim offense, then I seize the moral high ground, and can force you to cater to me to make amends. It's a power trip, and not a pretty one.

I don't think many people are offended, I think it's mostly virtue signalling. They want to show others how "tolerant" they are by taking offense on behalf of others.

The internet. Mass communications have given virtually every single group, every identity a space to exist in. Once they have a space to exist, they become formalized, the community grows, there are new 'converts' ect.

For example, the whole Brony thing was only really possible because of the online community. I doubt the term Brony would of been so ubiquitous in the 80s or something

This thread should definitely have come with a trigger warning.

People feel so offended because of their Pride.
There were unfinish matters of the heart, especially unforgiveness and bitterness. 
Time won't heal the wounds, but real Forgiveness can heal the wounds. The opposite of Pride is humility. Be humble.

This is not yet a perfect world.
We are waiting for the second coming of our Lord Jesus.
When he comes everything will become NEW.

Because of social media, we cannot stop people posting their opinions and sentiments no matter how stupid and nonsense it is.
People just need to learn patience and not giving a care on peoples lives.
But i think it's human nature that people get so offended because we always give a care. :D

It's just normal dude. People nowadays release their hate and anger on social media. It helps them to minimize the unfortunate things that happen to them. I know it's not a good trait for a person but as long it's not a grave threat then there is nothing to worry about. You can block them of you want bro if you don't like them.

I agree, people nowadays make use of social media in a wrong way. Others would post everything in public, by doing so, they gave other people the access to their private life, thus criticizing them. In the end, they would get mad to those critics. One should be aware of the limitations they post in social media. Keep for yourself, do not give everything!

I ask the same thing, i mean... world has become more open minded, so why feeling/taking everything personal, it's stupid people that will never take part of evolution.

Trying to apply it to the cryptoworld: As you can see the fact that Bitcoin exists already offends some countries nowadays :( Which usually leads to increasing of state regulation, arrests for using bitcoin etc. So it uncovers the system's weaknesses and at the same time authorities can't  controll it.

Hear, hear. It's all because we've conditioned people to believe that every opinion and person is precious and beautiful, whereas in all reality this is hardly ever the case. Oh well, empires rise and fall, such is the cycle, and now it's our turn to fall.

This might be the dumbest thing I've read all week.

Doesn't make it any less true.

1. It can be crocodile indignity, which is basically a political tool to further oppression and to establish the position of the "offended" one as a master who makes the law. This happens on personal level when some indignant person is the abusive bitch, for example, or on public level, in the political correctness movement.

2. It can be due to someone genuinely feeling hurt. That's mostly due to insecurity and neurotic trauma.

Not sure if this is a new problem, but it's played a lot more in the media than it used to be. Probably for the usual reason, someone is "telling us to behave".

Sometimes it depends on how we take things. We often get offended if we are very sensitive and take things very seriously. Sometimes we can't even distinguished between a joke and a serious matter. We have to listen to things with objectivity in order not to be offended quickly. It is always not about us, sometimes it is all about other people's opinion.

it's not necessarily true that more people get offended easier , it could be that we
see the SJW stuff on the internet etc. and interpret it as if almost every person is like that
but in reality only a really small percentage is that sensitive and gets offended by a lot of things.

Your right about that, they will always judge everything specially netizens. Without knowing the true story they will just argue with you, they can even get sympathy of others and making you the bad one. I always avoid posting on social media, i am not afraid of being bashed but i hate that my status,face, anything that links to reputation will be ruined. I value my reputation and my dignity, so that is why I always try to be in low profile. I don't want attention but at least I keep a little bit for fun with my friends.

Huh, people demonstrating why they are mortals...

Probably everybody, even one time in life, felt too that feel and you. Simply each on - it experiences anything. Main not to hide in itself, it badly.

I think many people think that they are being offended by someone. This is because nowadays bullying are relevant in our world. So when they feel bullied, all the people that will only tell a joke to him/her, they will feel offended even it is only a joke. Many people are being sensitive to their surroundins

Well, the thing is that people are very enlightened today, and know there rights. Earlier people just didn't give a dam about if you got offended or not, for example when women had no rights at all, the main problem was not that you got a bit offended by something you sad. It is a natural development when sociaties start giving people rights.

There are many factors like lifestyle, tech, education. Now people don't have tolerance with others.

Another possibility is that as the wealth of a country decreases its tolerance towards some subjects, I remember sharing a room when I was young so I had to put with some habits that I did not like from my brother and I'm sure he did the same, but now that a lot of kids do not have to go through that thanks to bigger houses tolerance has go down.

the truth is that, you’re not a bad person. In fact, you would typically describe yourself as kind-hearted, open-minded and even downright liberal.  You support marriage equality, you think that the patriarchy is a Real Thing, you’re against oppression and intolerance of any kind, and you use terms like social justice, white privilege and problematic. You are a good person. So if you think that what you shared was cool, and so many other people that you like and respect thought it was cool, then it stands to reason that it must be cool. And rather than second-guessing yourself or taking a fresh look at the video or blog post or whatever it was you shared, you let your knee-jerk self-righteousness and fear take over. Because, let’s be honest – as much as you believe that you’re in the right right, you are also afraid. Afraid that you are what you purport to hate, or at the very least unconsciously participating in a system that you hate.

And so you begin to loudly dismiss and belittle the other person’s concerns.

“Calm down, it’s just a joke.”

“You’re taking this too seriously.”

“You’re reading something into this that just isn’t there.”

“Honestly, do we have to be offended by everything now?”

“You are way too sensitive.”

“I have a black/gay/trans*/female friend, and they don’t think this is racist/homophobic/transphobic/sexist.”

You might even throw in a word or two about censorship, if you’re in the right mood.

Because of course you must be in the right. If there was any problem with the content in question, you would have been the first to see it. If the joke was offensive, you wouldn’t have laughed. If this was something likely to hurt another person, you wouldn’t have shared it.

It's simple, really: as serious offenses became practically nonexistent, the tolerance for more minor offenses decreased. So things that used to be brushed off or ignored completely started getting more focus because things that were actually serious simply didn't happen anymore.

Example: back in the day, a serious offense would be a public lynching for an interracial couple. As that became a thing of the past, the threshold for serious offense was reduced to racial slurs. As that became a thing of the past, the threshold was reduced again to simple racial descriptors. And once that becomes a thing of the past, the threshold will be reduced even further.

Good news is I think we're at the peak of just how intolerant of offense you can get before people simply stop taking you seriously.

There are many things that, as people age, they notice for the first time, and they always think those things are new. Usually, they're not. Whenever you get the urge to say "... nowadays," it's worth having some skepticism and talking to some older people.

I believe people get easily offended because they don't feel secure  themselves. Due to their inferiority complex, irrespective of how deep  it runs, they tend to lose the ability to 'turn the cheek'. People who  are confident of themselves seldom get offended.