Ben Finney wrote:
But whoever takes that joke and says it's deliberately hurtful is being presumptuous and censorious and unreasonable. If they then castigate the joker for supposedly hurting someone's feelings, it's at that point the atmosphere turns hostile to discussion.
Um, wasn't it RantingRick who made this 'joke'? Do you honestly believe he /wasn't/ trying to be offensive?
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