Avoiding offense means that we don't accept each other as equals.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Offence is important; that's how you know you care about things. Imagine a life where you're not offended. So dull.
Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone - except God.
We don't deliberately set out to offend. Unless we feel it's justified.
Sometimes the things we have to do are objectionable in the eyes of others.
We have to back each other up no matter what. Defense, you have to do your job, and offense has to do theirs.
The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather understand one another.
Now the thing is not to get into unnecessary quarrels by talking too much and not to indicate any weakness by talking too much; let our actions speak for themselves.
We will never be authentically angry or authentically fair while we are trying to be both at once.
What is there so offensive to which habit has not the power to reconcile us?
We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.