Same here.
EvF
EvF
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Why are people offended by insults?
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Dotard
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Stupid fuck
I used to tell a lot of religious jokes. Not any more, I'm a registered sects offender.
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I think the level of offence varies entirely on how much value I give to that person. If it's a person who's regularly and arse I don't even hear it. If it's someone I respect and admire then I get frustrated. The only offense I ever feel, that comes from without, is the frustration of ignorance. That's different than getting insulted by someone I love and hold dear. The more emotional investment I have in someone, the more they have the ability to hurt me (different than frustration). I simply don't get emotionally attached to anyone except my wife and 2 or so close life-long friends.
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
always working on cleaning my windows- me regarding Johari 
I have certainly heard that to be the case.
On some occasions it can be the other way around though. For example. You can more easily tell when someone you love and/or a good friend is only joking and they don't really mean their insult. However with a stranger or a less well known person, it might be harder to tell so you might be more likely to take it personally. That's from what I've observed in others. Sometimes I feel I WANT to be offended by at least SOMETHING to feel more human. EvF
I think that's more dependant on whether you're built for in-dependance (no pun intended) or co-depandance. It's flipable based off the level of contentment with yourself.
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
always working on cleaning my windows- me regarding Johari 
Being self-conscious about a personal trait (or flaw, etc) opens a window to taking offense to an insult.
If someone is legitimately concerned about their weight and how others see it, being called a fatass will hurt.
- Meatball
 Quote:Why are people offended by insults? Maybe they have emotions and feelings? Just a guess.
"I'm like a rabbit suddenly trapped, in the blinding headlights of vacuous crap" - Tim Minchin in "Storm"
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So do I. And so do others who aren't offended/aren't easily offended. And so I consider that an obvious statement in itself - yet irrelevant
 EvF 
H0ary H0bbit Religious Views: “Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.” - Edgar Allan Poe
If you're not offended it isn't a very good insult. People will use insults to get the better of you. Put you down amongst your piers. You could lose out, and you have an inbuilt reaction designed to defend yourself and your share of the pie.
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