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To: Poet who wrote (399)	8/18/2001 3:26:05 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 51721

Almost everything is offensive to someone. That's life, at least human life. We live, where ever we live, in relation to the ever changing water mark of societal convention. There are people who would kick and scream and argue it is not so, but any study of society/history will tell you it is so. Conventions change, and what is "offensive" changes too. So it's hard for me to take it very seriously on a grand scale. Of course I find many things personally abhorrent- but always, in the back of my mind, I have an idea of all the other ways the subject (whatever it is) can be viewed. I could argue the side of every position I abhor- it doesn't make me less inclined to agree with my own opinion, but it makes me more inclined not to want to force people to accede to my demands. Most people (and I'll never understand why) cannot grasp that relativists can have very strong moral ideas, based on reason and practicality, nor can most people grasp the difference between atheists and agnostics. It has been a wonder to me that some people who have apparently made it through some college somewhere can fail to grasp such simple ideas. But there you are.