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Message: <blockquote data-quote="PowerWordDumb" data-source="post: 1015848" data-attributes="member: 8614">Offense by proxy - what a beautiful phrase!  I'm going to steal that for the next time I do battle with people eager to get offended on someone else's behalf.  And alsinh2o, I'm not targeting you here.As for SKR's methods, the image captions themselves clearly reveal he was asking for permission, hardly doing guerilla photography as you implied.  Personally I think he was right interpret your post that way, though you meant no insult you didn't give any clue of that.Hey, I'm all for good taste and asking people's permission for photos, but if we're going to jump to take offense by even that because someone somewhere might not like it, then why not ban photography altogether, since some primitive tribes (I'm gonna offend someone with that term, I just know it) see it as stealing your soul?Clearly there are things which one can reasonably expect would offend a majority of reasonable people.  These things we probably should not do, at least in public, and would not want associated with these forums or our hobby.  In fact, we should probably strive not to offend people as a general rule, until the issues we're assuming will offend people get unreasonable or pose unacceptable restrictions upon our chosen lifestyles.  Beyond that, if you ask for and receive permission, that's as good as you can ask for, isn't it?Enough moralizing for today anyways - I have 3.5 books to try and absorb before my game session on Sunday.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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