The Worst Defence is a Good Offence.

Offence is one of those things that people take, but never want.  Well, some people want to be offended, it's like candy for bitches.  We've all met someone who enjoys nothing more than meeting someone who's opinion differs from them drastically, because in that moment they get to shout.

They do not get to "discuss" or "educate", no, they simply want to have a reason to be very loud about something they like to think they know about.

Since blogs are nothing more than soapboxes, here's mine:

You should deeply care about if you offend someone, even if you hate them.

Offending someone is not a good thing, the exact meaning of the word negates it as being something to be proud of.  Too many times I have to sit through an entire media feed, filled with posts and pages about how "I DON'T CARE IF THIS OFFENDS YOU!" or "if this offends you, you can fuck right off."

It's trolling, on a more personal level.  Akin to saying "u mad?" after doing something with the intention of making someone angry.  It creates a situation where you have trapped someone into either feeling the intended, ambushed emotion, or lying about how they're a Zen master.

There are likely no Zen masters anywhere near anyone reading anything on Facebook.  Unless you are taking a selfie with the Dali Lama, you've never met one.

Say you don't believe in "God" or any "gods", so you're an atheist.  Now, if you just don't believe because of reasons, that's fine, the only people who really care likely won't waste their time on you.  Though, if you want attention, you can be a militant atheist.  You can post demeaning things about other people, call them idiots, tell them horrible things, insult every aspect of their intellect, and then, after all of it you can just scoff at them for being offended.  It's fine, because only stupid people would be offended for it.

It makes you sound smarter, to dismiss other people, just like pushing someone makes you seem stronger. 

Fun Fact: Scientologists schools spend all day copying words out of the dictionary, which means that their children will grow up having a vocabulary that will dwarf every one of their peers.  They may not have the actual schooling to back it up, but they will speak in words that make "smart folks" feel like "dumb folks".  It's very much like what most atheists do today.

Now, I'm beating up on atheists, and I don't mean to. To be perfectly honest, I don't care if you're an atheist.  I don't care if you literally believe in the Flying Speghetti Monster.  In all honesty, I have never cared about religion, I care about actions.

Believe me, I have strong opinions, ones I will defend, but I will not defend them by offending others.  If you truly want to have strong opinions, you have to learn to explain and defend them while not hurting someone's feelings.  We tend to diminish that, making "hurting your little feelings" into an insult all on its' own.  Remember, suicide and murder both happen because of hurt feelings.  Wars as well.

To offend while speaking your opinion, ruins your opinion's merit, for example:

"Them niggers and faggots ain't too bad."

Well, that sentence is going to offend someone.  Rightly so, because it's goddamn offensive.  Even though it's merit is "these people are good", it's delivery negates that.  The speaker might really care about the rights of those people, to their very core... but who's going to take that?  Even if you agree with them, you're going to feel insulted, and you might even repremand them for it.  Imagine that, you're repremanding someone for voicing an opinion of tolerance and understanding.  Why?  U Mad?

Voicing one's opinion should only be done to educate others to the merits of one's opinion.  If done in a way that rebukes the exact people one is trying to educate, it's not "voicing an opinion" it's "being a massive dickhead."  No one ever says "Hitler was bad", because it's a damned given at this point.  Yes, we're well aware extermination of a people is wrong.  No one would say, to a group of their friends "Hitler is a fucking monster, and you guys are fucking shits if you think otherwise, and if you're offended by this, you can go fuck yourself." 

No one speaks to their friends like that, they don't need to.  Their friends likely either know, or even if they did not, yelling at them and threatening insult is only going to convince your friends you're an asshole.  If you said that line to a person who had never heard of Hitler, you're not going to convince them. 

If you're intention in voicing your opinion is not to educate those who might not fully understand, but to exclude those who may disagree with you, you are not voicing an opinion.  In this, you are secluding yourself from other opinions, so you may listen to your opinions echo.  A person who argues with his echo, is a moron.