timtyler comments on Don't Get Offended - LessWrong

32 Post author: katydee 07 March 2013 02:11AM

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Comment author: Bugmaster 07 March 2013 07:31:10AM 4 points [-]

I believe that it is both possible and desirable to discourage antisocial behavior without becoming (or even acting) offended.

I realize this is possible, but is it actually effective ? Entire social movements have been built on the basis of acting offended; and some of them, f.ex. the Civil Rights movement, have been spectacularly successful (comparatively speaking). Of course, one could argue that their success wasn't worth the cost...

Comment author: fubarobfusco 07 March 2013 08:07:57AM 8 points [-]

Entire social movements have been built on the basis of acting offended; and some of them, f.ex. the Civil Rights movement

This seems like a pretty big oversimplification.

(Counterexample: Any act of civil disobedience under risk of violence seems to be ill-characterized as "acting offended".)