Actually, you didn't offend me. Trust me, I'm
very hard to offend. If the /b/tards can't do it, someone on MobileRead has no chance.
However, it was clear that your statement was
meant to be offensive, hence my "talk about offensive" comment. I pointed out how your statement was in error and went on.
As for "neither offended feeling matters or they both do": Again, it's the perspective thing. For example, take that person I mentioned a while back, the flake I knew in college. She would probably be offended if you mentioned the Kitty Genovese murder in her presence in any context. "So because you're a man you think violence against women is acceptable?" Is her feeling of offense on a par with, say, the feeling a black man would have if he told "n*** boy, go back to Africa" by some random racist in the street? Both people are offended, or claim to be (I've never been sure that she was actually offended at anything, or just seeking attention/control) but I think most of us can tell the difference between the feelings of a person who was deliberately taunted with hate speech and a person who flipped out at things that would not even register on the offense meter of the average person. Yet you think they're the same thing? "Neither offended feeling matters or they both do"?
Where have I repeatedly told you you're childish and wrong for feeling a certain way? And if I have, how can you tell me I'm wrong to feel that you're wrong? Isn't that wrong?
Y'know, people seemed to do a lot less festering
before the Web gave us forums to freely vent our bad feelings in. So, I'm not certain that it's a
lack of forum venting opportunities is the problem.
As for your psychological issues and suicidal ideation, I think you need to seek help for them from a professional, not in an ebook readers' forum. Just a suggestion there.