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Yes (grow some balls) No (im offended by this)
Debate Score:27
Arguments:23
Total Votes:30
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 Yes (grow some balls) (13)
 
 No (im offended by this) (7)

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Are people too easily offended nowadays?

Yes (grow some balls)

Side Score: 19
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No (im offended by this)

Side Score: 8

Yes, just telling someone you have a different opinion is enough to offend a lot of people these days, especially when it comes to religion and politics. It's really getting out of hand.

Side: Yes (grow some balls)
1 point

Political correctness hasn't helped either :/

Side: Yes (grow some balls)
2 points

Conservatives: Obama didnt Mention God in his speech! Im offended

Liberals: Rush Limbaugh is using his right of free speech! I'm offended!

Feminists: That guy looked at me wrong! Thats sexist and Im offended!

Etc.

Side: Yes (grow some balls)
pakicetus(1455) Disputed
1 point

Erm, I agree with your statement, but I think you're generalizing things a little too much.

Side: Yes (grow some balls)
1 point

Remember that War on Christmas thing?

Side: Yes (grow some balls)
ToTheMaxx(5) Disputed
1 point

no I don't remember that War on Christmas thing, do tell me about it.

Side: No (im offended by this)
1 point

Every year Fox News runs their story that there is a war on Christmas because people say Happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas.

Side: Yes (grow some balls)

Yeah. Language can't always be ignored, but without action or enforcement, it has no more power over you than you allow it to happen. If somebody offends you with differing views or course speech, you are giving them more power over you than such an offensive person should be allowed to have.

Besides, virtually anything is potentially offensive to SOMEBODY. Take control of your own words, stop fretting about others.

Side: Yes (grow some balls)
1 point

yes. people can get offended really quickly.you might have said something that you didnot realize you were being rude and they took it the wrong way.

Side: Yes (grow some balls)
2 points

How dare you! This is outrageous!

Side: No (im offended by this)

No. They've always been this way.

Side: No (im offended by this)
pakicetus(1455) Disputed
1 point

Not really. People always have been nitpicky and whiny, but not to the extents we see today. My guess is political correctness has something to do with it.

Side: Yes (grow some balls)
Intangible(4934) Disputed
0 points

Whatever. You are just becoming more aware of it, because of how far the media has expanded. If the same issues that existed today were to exist during an earlier time period the people within that time period would feel the same way. That's why I have asserted, that They've always been this way..

You also may be slow on the uptake, like the majority of our civilization seems to be, therefore, obvious information materializes into your reality, as if you were experiencing an epiphany. Just say'n.

Side: No (im offended by this)

I agree. Maybe the specific things people object to have changed (or maybe they haven't), but there have always been people who are easily offended and those who have been relatively laid back. Look at history; people have been getting butthurt about anything and everything imaginable for as long as we've recorded it.

If there is a perception that people are more easily offended nowadays, I attribute it to the advancement of communications tech allowing a greater number of people to voice their grievances to a significantly larger audience.

Side: No (im offended by this)

It is the PC world we live in today. It's not going to change so plenty of people are going to be offended by speech that they think is wrong.

Side: No (im offended by this)