Humans are nervous, touchy creatures and can be easily offended. Many are deeply insecure. They become focused and energized by taking offence; it makes them feel meaningful and alive.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Offence is important; that's how you know you care about things. Imagine a life where you're not offended. So dull.
Offendedness is just about the last shared moral currency in our country. And, I'm sorry, but it's really annoying. We don't discuss ideas or debate arguments, we try to figure out who is most offended.
I think we're all sensitive; everyone has a certain way about themselves that people don't like to let their emotions out too often. I think people tend to suppress them and hold them in, so I think there's a bit of that in me.
I have never been offended. I don't know what it means. It's not that I disagree with it. I don't understand it. I've never had that feeling. I don't let feelings control my life. I'm more disciplined than other people.
We are inhibited from aggression by the presence of another face, another person. We're aware that we're with a human being. On the Internet, we are disinhibited from taking into full account that we are in the presence of another human being.
Human beings never think for themselves; they find it too uncomfortable. For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told - and become upset if they are exposed to any different view.
When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans.
If you're going to do something that's going to cause offence to people, you're always going to get a reaction.
Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
To be offended is a choice we make; it is not a condition inflicted or imposed upon us by someone or something else.