Your not knowing this particular situation is not a problem. You're making very valid points - I just don't agree with them.
When someone causes hurt, regardless of whether or not it was intended, they have still caused it. Your suggestion that because they didn't intend it they are exonerated of all blame is wholly wrong in my opinion. I shudder to think of what people could get away with - hey, what they do get away with - because they couldn't express theselves without taking an inadvertant stab at someone, and being free to carry on because it's the injured party's fault if they take offense.
It lays open the door for absent minded or casual cruelty, and gives some semblance of moral high ground. There I few things I dislike more.
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Date: 2007-12-01 04:32 pm (UTC)When someone causes hurt, regardless of whether or not it was intended, they have still caused it. Your suggestion that because they didn't intend it they are exonerated of all blame is wholly wrong in my opinion. I shudder to think of what people could get away with - hey, what they do get away with - because they couldn't express theselves without taking an inadvertant stab at someone, and being free to carry on because it's the injured party's fault if they take offense.
It lays open the door for absent minded or casual cruelty, and gives some semblance of moral high ground. There I few things I dislike more.