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November 2009 
Authentic Damages ...
Posted on Feb 12th, 2009
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Naumadd
Naumadd
Recently, a four-billion-dollar lawsuit was filed against performer Miley Cyrus on behalf of "asian" individuals as a result of some offensive behavior in some published photos. Silly ... and silly.
I believe we ought to reserve compulsory restitutions for genuine damages to person and property and refrain from restitutions for mere "hurt feelings". Ought one be compensated for one's own emotional immaturity?
One expects the immature to be offensive.
One also expects the immature to be offended.
One also expects the immature to be offended.
Immaturity ought not be rewarded in either case.
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I agree. It’s also possible that the ones who filed the lawsuit were not so much offended as they were greedy.
Quote: “One expects the immature to be offensive. One also expects the immature to be offended.” A fabulous observation.
I wonder, though, at the insidious consequence of too much pandering to the defense of offense. Does it not lead, inevitably, to eventual oppression? Of dialogue at the very least. I recently came across this article that begs attention to the extremes of offense in matters of dialogue, wherein it eventually becomes monologue, where compromise sooner or later turns into a surrender, for fear of offense and often in situations where dialogue, rather than monologue, becomes critical. Is the the sign of the times to cry foul or offense when we are confronted with what we don’t want to hear? Or view? Or is it all simply a clash in philosophy? Or clash of egos, more like as not?
I realize I have taken your simple point far off the beaten track, but it brought to mind the extended thought.
Blessings~
Hi Nahnni - I guess what I was getting at is that, in light of the fact we are all so intimately integrated as to be “one” as opposed to separate selves, the drive to be offensive and the drive to be offended are so much unawareness of “self” in the fullest sense. Perhaps we do not understand that berating another is self-denigration and that self-denigration is denigration of other. It’s all so much sleepy self-dialogue, isn’t it?
In other words, to take offense at what “other” does or says to us is to forget the offense is within ourselves, not in the action or words. Choose not to be offended and the offense goes away - a sure sign it was only in your head.