"...a world where everything is policed, apart from crime"
Re: 1984 is already here.
Posted: 03 Sep 2024, 18:54
by Mike Oxsaw
No sticks and stones in the modern world.
Re: 1984 is already here.
Posted: 03 Sep 2024, 16:32
by zico
Can I have thrown in jail then anyone who has called me a deaf bastard, short arse, pillock, dick head, any number of things over the last 50 odd years?! Would be a long list!!
Re: 1984 is already here.
Posted: 03 Sep 2024, 16:18
by stubbo-admin
Once policing is based on claimed 'feelings', then consistency and rationality is out the window, because what causes upset to someone with a 'cast iron constitution' is very different to what might caus upset to a shrinking violet.
As the questioner points out, anyone can take offence at anything in any given moment for any reason. Being 'offended' is not grounds to be considered a victim (or at least it shouldn't be). I believe the language previously was about 'what any reasonable person' would feel.