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I don't get how offending someone means you're supposed to apologise. You can genuinely, compassionately acknowledge that you caused pain, that this is an undesirable side effect of your expression. But causing offense does not automatically equate to wrong behavior.

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Ideally you apologize when you think the pain you caused to another wasn't worth the benefit you got from it, and you'd like to communicate to them they can trust you not to do it again. But so much offense doesn't fall into that category and those offenders shouldn't apologize!

1:50 AM · Sep 20, 2020

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Very often the pain you cause to other people is worth the benefit, and that is important to recognize and protect. Taxes, protests, mocking religion, are all examples of "good" offense - clearly we don't view causing pain as uniformly a bad thing!

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