(April 10, 2016 at 1:37 pm)Minimalist Wrote: It's never the right time for people who don't want to hear it in the first place.
BINGO, and if we always insist on never offending others, we'd still be stuck in the dark ages. I really do love the empathy of even my liberal theist friends, but in far too many situations even a polite "that is not true" to far too many might as well be a literal "fuck you".
That is why you never slap well intended empathetic ideas of "don't offend" ever, as a blanket solution. That matters to all parties, because the worst thing you can do is hand that kind of power to a majority that might not like what you have to say.
The best humans can do is allow the bitching and blasphemy in all directions but still insist on the common law of no calls to violence or physical acts of violence.
If we all got to silence things merely because they offend us, there is not one human out of the 7 billion that could not think of something they would rather not have said to them that offends them.
