July 21, 2009, on this blog: On offendedness
Taking offense and getting angry aren’t exactly the same thing. Anger has to do with the intolerable difference between what is and what ought to be, which is to say, with injustice. Offendedness has to do with my own discomfort with the difference between how I feel and how I’d prefer to feel. Offendedness makes it all about me.
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