Apparently there’s a meaning crisis, maybe you heard about it? You could have been on the purposelessness train back in 2016 when the opioid epidemic was being discussed by journalists on a weekly basis. Or maybe you came to it a little later when a Canadian professor took issue with “Bill C-16” and you discovered he had a lot of other opinions on how to live a good life. Maybe you read his book. A dozen rules or something like that.
Read moreThe Futility of Taking Offence
In many western societies offence is functioning is an epistemological virtue in as much as it has somehow, by some, been accepted to be a winning move during a conversation. I don’t necessarily expect people to read what I have to say and immediately believe “being offended” to be entirely useless, but I hope to at least make the argument that there is an unnecessary suffering almost being wilfully generated by those who believe that being hurt by another person’s words is the “correct” reaction.
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