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It's pretty interesting that the people complaining about people being offended too often are so easily "triggered" by other people being offended.

I've been noticing this a lot lately, even on HN. Someone will mention equality or fairness and there will be a whole slew of people complaining about how people are too sensitive now-a-days. In reality, those complainers are being overly sensitive themselves.

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> It's pretty interesting that the people complaining about people being offended too often are so easily "triggered" by other people being offended.

Not really (for me). I couldn't care less if you're offended. But if you start attacking me because I offended you (or someone else), and start making the general discussion impossible ("pissing in the pool"), then of course I'll oppose you, not because I'm "triggered", but simply because I want my discussion back! (And also because I don't think people should be fired for having opinions.)

> Someone will mention equality or fairness and there will be a whole slew of people complaining

Only if they mention "equality" (e.g. affirmative action) and "fairness" (e.g. wage gap). That's not because our feeling are over-sensitive, but because we're over-sensitive to the bullshit arguments proponents of these ideas keep repeating as if they were the greatest achievements of logic and/or statistics.

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Of course these discussions do get out of hand, and it's true that not all forms of inequality are completely valid in all cases, but it seems best to ignore the people you disagree with instead of trying to convince them to be like you. This goes for all discussions both on and offline. However, if you're in an arena where being argumentative is encouraged than you should have a better argument than "stop being so sensitive!" and the other side should have an argument other then "things are unfair" or else you barely even have a real conversation going.