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Your examples are good, but to be accurate to the argument at hand you would expect it to be okay for all car roll simulations to be banned, or optional for any
by chippy 11y ago
Your examples are good, but to be accurate to the argument at hand you would expect it to be okay for all car roll simulations to be banned, or optional for anyone and for all glass walled elevators to be covered up everywhere. It's not the fear or the offence that's being debated, it's the change in society to accommodate the fear or the offence that's the point.
- dalke 11y agoThere are multiple arguments "at hand". The one I refer to is beaker52's argument that a call for trigger warnings and safe spaces is due to a childish rejection of the real world. I disagree with that conclusion, for reasons I gave. I think you are talking about a different argument? Personally, I see direct parallels to the current call for "safe spaces" to older calls for non-gendered job titles, prohibitions on the casual use of racist slurs, the student protests against Kissinger appointment to Columbia which lead to the university cancelling his appointment, and more. I can't point to a time when there wasn't a debate about a "change in society to accommodate the fear or the offence". It all seems more of outrage about "kids these days" and "things were more meaningful when I was your age" than anything else. Is that the argument at hand that you refer to?
- cholantesh 11y ago>It all seems more of outrage about "kids these days" and "things were more meaningful when I was your age" than anything else. In most cases, that's exactly what it is.