(November 6, 2010 at 7:40 pm)ScienceIsTheOnlyLord Wrote: adrian. of course people can be offended by it. i am a person. it offends me. you over intellectualise every word of every argument. people define offense differently. differently to you. differently to your logic. your logic is meaningless to most people. surely you, of all the worlds people, know that people define things differently. how many times have you had arguments with people about definitions? it's about 10% of your forum life isn't it?
1. Definitions that are not commonly accepted are useless. If you want to define 'offence' however you like, despite the impications for coherent conversation, then you can go join the "Existentialist club".
2. There is no "your logic" and "my logic", you are either sucessful in using logic or you are not.
3. You don't have the right not to be offended. If my making a statement offends you I honestly don't care, unless you can show my statement to be false it stands, regardless of the implications for your sensibilities. If i say "There are no sound and valid reasons to believe a god exist, thus all belief in god is unreasonable" and that offends someone then so what? Until they can show my statement is wrong I'm not going to retract it.
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