Taking offence is never the answer.

In many western societies offence is functioning is an epistemological virtue in as much as it has somehow, by some, been accepted to be a winning move during a conversation. I don’t necessarily expect people to read what I have to say and immediately believe “being offended” to be entirely useless, but I hope to at least make the argument that there is an unnecessary suffering almost being wilfully generated by those who believe that being hurt by another person’s words is the “correct” reaction.

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