No. I did think it was likely to be used as a source of rationalizations by people who do offend people, though, without some caveat that, well, offending people is ceteris paribus bad; and that a lot of common responses people have (especially online) to complaints of offense are actually rather weak rationalizations.
My response was intended in the spirit of Eliezer’s “Knowing About Biases Can Hurt People” — that this sort of thing may unintentionally provide ammunition for bad behavior.
Agreed on basically all points. Did you feel this post was attempting to defend or rationalize offending people?
No. I did think it was likely to be used as a source of rationalizations by people who do offend people, though, without some caveat that, well, offending people is ceteris paribus bad; and that a lot of common responses people have (especially online) to complaints of offense are actually rather weak rationalizations.
My response was intended in the spirit of Eliezer’s “Knowing About Biases Can Hurt People” — that this sort of thing may unintentionally provide ammunition for bad behavior.