I'm reminded of http://lesswrong.com/lw/13s/the_nature_of_offense/ http://lesswrong.com/lw/13s/the_nature_of_offense/ "Specifically, to give offense is to impl

I'm reminded of http://lesswrong.com/lw/13s/the_nature_of_offense/ http://lesswrong.com/lw/13s/the_nature_of_offense/ "Specifically, to give offense is to imply that a person or group has or should have low status. Taking offense then becomes easy to explain: it’s to defend someone’s status from such an implication, out of a sense of either fairness or self-interest."