> Even more interesting is your attempt to shut down the conversation because it offends you.
That brings up an interesting issue for me. It's a somewhat popular trope, that there is an equivalence between Amy offending people and Bob asking her to stop. It's really a rhetorical tactic -- an attempt to disrupt Bob by forcing him to philsophically justify what is obviously and intuitively true to everyone.
There may be a question of whether something is offensive or otherwise does harm to others, of course. But absolutely if someone finds something offensive, they should stand up and say so -- and not be shut down by the new political correctness (i.e., the frequent knee-jerk reaction to people who point out issues of race, gender, etc.).
People don't trn and shut down these conversations because they're offensive. They try and sht them down because they're toxic.
Try wandering into any programming thread and talking nonsense about eg static typing then complaining about people trying to shut down the conversation.
