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I'll probably be scared of that level of aggression without other interaction, but not offended? Anyone is welcome to call me a "rancid sack of mould covered d

• coldtea 10y ago
  >I'll probably be scared of that level of aggression without other interaction, but not offended? Why focus on the "other interaction" part? It's totally orthogonal to the point I was making. There could have BEEN other interaction, e.g. you might have blocked his cart in the supermarket aisle, or whatever. The question is not if it was justified or remotely provoked response or not, but whether the receiver would be offended. >but unless i care about their opinion, it's unlikely to offend I doubt that really works that way in practice. E.g. you're out and someone starts swearing at you, for whatever reason, and calling you various things in public. Sure, you could ignore it if it was just some crazy homeless person or something like that, but I doubt you'd ignore it if it was some other normal looking person. Of course you could always say "yeah, I got angry, but that's because in this particular instance I cared about their opinion". And how about them publicly calling e.g. you daughter names or something? You still wouldn't mind because you "don't care about their opinion"?