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Originally Posted by gmw
Being primed to receive insult means raising argument where there may not be any need. It means possibly misconstruing perfectly innocent sentences and derailing entire conversations all because of some need to exert one particular view of the world, some particular way of phrasing oneself.
Whereas failing to recognise an intended insult (if it was truly intended) typically just annoys the one sending the insult, the person on the receiving end continues in the bliss of ignorance. I don't see anything wrong with offering the benefit-of-the-doubt and interpreting "real book" in the sense that I might use it myself, it does me no harm.
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Well said. We seem to live in a world where people actively try to find reasons to be offended. I don't understand why we "need" this constant strife.