Saturday, November 06, 2004
The Worst Thing
We live in a world in which the worst thing one can do to another is offend him. God forbid someone's feelings get hurt.
Someone gets shot, raped: police find the criminal or don't; the community calls it a shame the way this place is going to hell. Then back to work.
Someone hurts someone else's feelings or says something "offensive": we get the community activists out, saying we need "healing" and there's no place for this in society; and there will be a council, a protest, yard signs, and lots of shaken heads at whoever dared say such a thing.
The worst thing you can do in America today is offend someone.
Someone gets shot, raped: police find the criminal or don't; the community calls it a shame the way this place is going to hell. Then back to work.
Someone hurts someone else's feelings or says something "offensive": we get the community activists out, saying we need "healing" and there's no place for this in society; and there will be a council, a protest, yard signs, and lots of shaken heads at whoever dared say such a thing.
The worst thing you can do in America today is offend someone.
