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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Tom Stangl writes:
> Well, I AM going to say it - you're too damned uptight. The world is going
> to hell in a handbasket, and part of it is everybody whining about something,
> and people having to watch every word they say.
Just because the world's going to hell in a handcart doesn't give you the
right to push it faster.
> GYP GYP GYP. I say it all the time. I don't give a damn where it came
> from. I'm part Welsh, and don't really care if people use "welsh on a
> bet/deal" - I've used it myself. I've also used many other non-PC terms in
> my life. DEAL WITH IT, I'm not going to stop saying them. That doesn't mean
> I'm a racist (that is definitely one thing I am NOT), it just means I'm not
> going to waste MY life trying to make YOU happy.
>
> The world's population is turning into a bunch of crybabies (there, I've done
> it, I've offended Extremely Young Persons of the Crying Persuasion) whining
> about being offended.
Actually, the most of the world's population have more important things to
worry about than being offended. Things like having enough food, adequate
shelter, clean water. It's mostly self-centered, arrogant Americans who have
nothing better to do than whine about being offended by what people say. And
yes, I am an American.
> Just about ANYTHING you say will offend SOMEONE. If you worry about
> offending 0.01% of the population, give it up, you're hopeless (want to bet
> that true 100% Gypsies are even less that 0.01% of the population?), just put
> yourself out of our misery now..
Sure, but that doesn't give you free reign to go around purposefully saying
things that you *know* are going to offend people. If more people would
realise that *everyone else* is a person *just like them* with similar hopes,
dreams, fears, and so forth (rather than the current [again, America-centered]
idea that Life is about being Happy, and Whatever Make You Happy is the Most
Important), maybe some of Us would get along better. Maybe not; it seems to me
that the only common thread in human behaviour is that we don't like one
another.
> Tom Stangl
This is just my opinion. Other opinions are welcomed and relished.
-Cheese
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| (...) No, the proper justification for the *right* people have to go around saying things that they know are going to offend people (at least in America), is that we have a constitutional right to do so (with certain limitations, see my other post). (...) (25 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| Well, I AM going to say it - you're too damned uptight. The world is going to hell in a handbasket, and part of it is everybody whining about something, and people having to watch every word they say. GYP GYP GYP. I say it all the time. I don't give (...) (25 years ago, 14-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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