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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elder-Basilisk" data-source="post: 764810" data-attributes="member: 3146">Actually yes you did. You said some people are too easily offended. Last I checked, the English language works this way: if someone is TOO easily offended, they get offended by things they OUGHT NOT to be offended by.You also said that anyone who refused to buy a magazine over a silly thing like [im]Mature content and cover art was a reactionary who shouldn't be taken seriously. Obviously, the person who makes that claim knows what kind of things aren't worth refusing to buy a magazine over. At the very least, he claims to know that [im]mature content and art isn't a good enough reason--at least not for anyone other than a "reactionary." The question is what it would be worth boycotting a magazine over.The concept of overreacting requires a concept of an appropriate reaction. If there's no standard for how people ought to react, then it's impossible to overreact to anything.If there is a right reaction then people can overreact. . . or underreact.I certainly hope that neither my opinion nor yours are irrelevant. If your opinion is no better than Celebrim's, why tell him he's taking things too seriously? Why not just say "I don't think it's a big deal, relate the anecdote and leave?" Heck, why even say that? If my opinion right now is as good as the one I'd have if I saw the inherent reasonableness of your position and said "Mea culpa; I was wrong; you're right", what's the point of discussion at all? I would hope that we both have better beliefs after the conversation than we did before.As for the quote: Who said that there's no such thing as a right or wrong emotion? And why is their opinion any better than someone who disagrees with them?Isn't that telling someone what to think? Specifically, telling them what not to think--"Do not think of this as a serious thing worth getting worked up over?" How else can suggesting not taking something too seriously be taken? I presume it means you're telling people not to take something seriously.That's the way it usually works. The boards usually eat my good posts but occasionally they eat ones and it's a really really good thing. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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