All of the above days seem quite fun and fine to me.
As for the original article point—I agree that there isn’t any significant difference between the hypothetical British salmon case and Mohammad’s case, but it this fact doesn’t change anything. There isn’t a right to never be offended. There is no duty to abstain from offending others. It’s nice if others are nice, but you can’t demand everybody to be nice—most of them will be indifferent, and some will be not nice, and you just have to live with it and deal with it without using violence—and if you don’t know how to handle it without violence, then you are still a ‘child’ in that sense and have to learn proper reaction, so everybody can (and probably should) provoke you until you learn to deal with it.
Well said! It is shameful that many folks’ response to this is that we need to punish those who act to offend. Those who enforce and enable the unreasonable standard of a right to not be offended are at blame.
All of the above days seem quite fun and fine to me.
As for the original article point—I agree that there isn’t any significant difference between the hypothetical British salmon case and Mohammad’s case, but it this fact doesn’t change anything. There isn’t a right to never be offended. There is no duty to abstain from offending others. It’s nice if others are nice, but you can’t demand everybody to be nice—most of them will be indifferent, and some will be not nice, and you just have to live with it and deal with it without using violence—and if you don’t know how to handle it without violence, then you are still a ‘child’ in that sense and have to learn proper reaction, so everybody can (and probably should) provoke you until you learn to deal with it.
Well said! It is shameful that many folks’ response to this is that we need to punish those who act to offend. Those who enforce and enable the unreasonable standard of a right to not be offended are at blame.