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<blockquote data-quote="HereWeGoAgain" data-source="post: 107713" data-attributes="member: 3485"><p><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: everywoman</div><div class="ubbcode-body">It's not you, Mutt. I've noticed as we become more politically correct, we become more sensitive. </div></div></p><p>Right. "That offends me" has become the magic phrase that shuts down dialog. Being "offended" carries so much power that some folks are always on the lookout for something to be offended by while the rest of us fall over backwards trying not to offend anyone.</p><p> </p><p><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: daisylover</div><div class="ubbcode-body">As a whole society, have we lost our manners and repect for each other as people to the point where we have to have outside forces dictate to us how we should behave?</div></div></p><p>Good manners suffer when society is splintered into a million groups, each one hypersensitive to being offended. Manners, courtesy, and tact, with broad tacit agreement on cultural norms, are what hold society together; as society is atomized into competing special interest/identity groups (with politicians pandering to and egging it on) that broad agreement goes by the board.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HereWeGoAgain, post: 107713, member: 3485"] <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: everywoman</div><div class="ubbcode-body">It's not you, Mutt. I've noticed as we become more politically correct, we become more sensitive. </div></div> Right. "That offends me" has become the magic phrase that shuts down dialog. Being "offended" carries so much power that some folks are always on the lookout for something to be offended by while the rest of us fall over backwards trying not to offend anyone. <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: daisylover</div><div class="ubbcode-body">As a whole society, have we lost our manners and repect for each other as people to the point where we have to have outside forces dictate to us how we should behave?</div></div> Good manners suffer when society is splintered into a million groups, each one hypersensitive to being offended. Manners, courtesy, and tact, with broad tacit agreement on cultural norms, are what hold society together; as society is atomized into competing special interest/identity groups (with politicians pandering to and egging it on) that broad agreement goes by the board. [/QUOTE]
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