I think we really need to focus on establishing a norm where it is recognised that being offended won't kill you & is your own problem.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
That assumes human beings are intellectual information processors Even Spock from Star Trek had his boiling point (his mom I tk)
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Replying to @lpearsemoran
No, it doesn't.We can take responsibility for our own feelings &stop trying to legislate protection of them w/out denying them
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Yeah sure, we CAN do it, but it's no where near our default position Once it's something we care about it takes conscious effort
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Replying to @lpearsemoran @HPluckrose
What we care about is different for libs and cons, and the amount of conscious effort available is a limited resource (Kahneman)
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Replying to @lpearsemoran @HPluckrose
We should take people as they are, not how we would like them to be??
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Replying to @lpearsemoran
That's exactly what I'm arguing, yes. If you find someone else's clothes offensive, put up with it.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
I don't think so Helen. I think moral relativity is the road to perdition. If someone turns up at my house wearing a pillowcase
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I'm not arguing for moral relativity. I want everyone to have the same rights as everyone else.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @lpearsemoran
Just because one set of ppl have decided that black face paint in Border Morris is racist, does not make it so. Get over it.
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