> well when everything is an offense to someone your going to need a right to offend just to say something they don't agree with. Or you need a third party tha

> well when everything is an offense to someone your going to need a right to offend just to say something they don't agree with. Or you need a third party that defines what is offensive and what isn't. The "right to offence" is like an arms race to me. But in arms races, it's not rightness or truth that win. It's power. The only case where power should win is when it's people's power, id est democracy. That's why I accept, at least in principle, laws and courts as the "third party".