Reddit and the anti-PC jerk

I'm not saying I can accurately judge what anyone's response should or should not be to anything. I'm just saying that we can't accommodate everything ever that people say is triggering and remove it, work around it, or put some kind or warning label on it.

In the same swath completely disregarding the idea that something triggers someone or a group of people and telling them to suck it up and get over it.

WE as a society have to find the balance between sometimes facing things that might trigger or offend people and letting them be or doing something to squash them out because they are too harmful or painful to others.

If someone wants to be triggered by something they can be, I want to have a different feeling about what I think triggered vs mild discomfort is I can also have that.

I was getting at there is some middle ground between both sides of these issues yet people always jump to one side or the other.

I never said I'm some moral arbiter over what does or does not offend someone or even how people should feel about things. Just said that society or groups involved in laying out standards for how such things are dealt with to minimize stress or trauma to people need to do their best to walk a line between being helpful vs harmful. At a certain point if you cover up too much stuff because a few people said it is triggering you hide information. At another point if you don't draw a line saying something is too offensive once in a while you make a lot of people miserable.

YOU put this all on ME saying I'M trying to enforce what I want or believe. I never said that. All I was getting at is that as a whole people should be more level headed about this.

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