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Sure! The response to someone who is deliberately offensive and someone who habitually offends people by accident should be different, and I don't think anyone
by mjg59 6y ago
Sure! The response to someone who is deliberately offensive and someone who habitually offends people by accident should be different, and I don't think anyone denies that. But that's not an argument for doing nothing in response to someone who habitually offends people by accident.
- hntrader 6y ago"But that's not an argument for doing nothing in response to someone who habitually offends people by accident." Well that really depends. Offense is sometimes a strategy employed by cynical actors to gain a political advantage. If I say that your posts are constantly offending me, what do you propose we do about that? There isn't a universally applicable rule here. This is also where the driving analogy breaks down. It's an easy trade-off to revoke someone's license if it means we can prevent death. But taking action to prevent subjective offense enters into a much more tenuous and debatable cost-benefit trade-off. What makes sense would come down to the details of the case.