Why are people so concerned with the possibility of "offending" someone while also rebuking society's norms?

Answer 1

I'm not concerned about OFFENDING someone when professing my views about "society's norms". God gave me a brain to think and a mouth to express my thoughts...and the Constitution of the good old U.S. of A. guarantees me the right to do so. How else can a person "Grow" emotionally and intellectually if he or she doesn't question all things around them.

Those who are so "concerned with the possibility of offending" others may just not have the courage to 'COMMIT' themselves to THEIR point of view and defending this view, no matter what the outcome...people like these never "Grow" intellectually and will always be "Wishy Washy" thinkers always being "Part of the Problem' and rarely "Part of the solution".

Answer 2

There's not a single statement anyone in this entire world can make that won't offend at least one other person somewhere along the way. I could say "I love my children" and someone somewhere would have a problem with that. That just shows how different everyone is. Don't worry about offending anyone. Say and do what you feel is right. Don't let what other people say offend you as badly. Realize that nothing matters as much as people want to think it does. And no one's ever going to change someone else's mind by getting offended. Just live your life and be a good person and you and everyone else will be just fine.

Answer 3

I don't know anything about norms and don't want to, and I sure have never been concerned about offending anyone. And as for Rebuking Society, I have been doing that all my life.

Answer 4

There isn't anything complex about you or anybody else in the whole world. Everybody has done the same thing; on the basis of the vulnerability in the infantile situation when they were moving into incarnation, everyone developed a reactive pattern and presumption that essentially amounted to not being responsible for love, or feeling-attention, and through various games always looking for it to come to them. Everybody in the whole world is doing that, that is what anybody is doing unless they are understanding it, being responsible for it and entering into the eternal incident that is spiritually communicated to them in this moment.

That is the only way you can do something different than everybody else in the world, and there is no magical release from the past, there is only responsibility for it. Once you become responsible for it and adapt to the eternal incident in the moment, then the past starts becoming obsolete because you are adapting in a new way. The reason it hasn't changed yet, even though you've thought about your life for years, is that you haven't adapted differently.

Answer 5

I don't think it's concern about offending people, but a fear of the consequences of that offense. Personally I don't sweat it, I figure the worst thats going to happen is I'll get the crap kicked out of me, and if that's the case it won't be the first time, and it won't happen without a fight.
But I think this is one reason why people like Eminem and Carlos Mencia are so popular. Everyone thinks that stuff when they get frustrated, but nobody wants to say it. The castration of America... It's kind of disgusting really.

Answer 6

Because of the political correctness in America we don't want to offend anyone ,but by being a "rebel" and breaking the norms of society you are considered to be "cool" and are idolized by members of modern society.

Answer 7

To be honest, I'm fed up with all the "PC" chatter these days. Get over yourself! I'm tired of all the people crying foul b/c they were "offended" by something. Foul language, sex on TV, racial slurs, I mean c'mon. We should all try and behave as we live in a polite society, but I can't tell a "dirty" joke at work to a couple of friends without someone overhearing me and being offended?

Total BS

Answer 8

We all need to be careful how we say things, because words are powerful. Solomon says, "The wise man teaches his mouth, and adds persuasiveness to his lips."

But persuasiveness is not the same as bashing someone.

Paul said, "Speak the truth in love." Not always easy, but certainly a goal.

Still, done correctly, it is the truth itself that convicts and converts. But when the heart is hard, and truth fails, offense is taken.

And you're right, in such a case we needn't be so concerned about it.

Answer 9

Because someone is always suing someone else for being "politically incorrect" a legacy from the Clintons

Answer 10

Theirs a difference between being polite and rejecting what society tells me to do/be.