Political Correctness Might as Well Allow People to Hurt Each Other Just Because They Got Offended

I remembered a time that I really hurt someone for a very stupid reason. I tried to reason out that, "Well, he started it!" and all the teacher said was, "So what!" I thought she was being unfair until she explained to me that hurting someone over an insult is uncalled for. She even went as far as to explain that two wrongs never make a right - just because somebody did something to you doesn't justify your mistakes. I tried to reason out that I was offended and she even said being offended is no reason to do something stupid. Unfortunately, it seems that we can kiss the law against disproportionate retribution goodbye in the name of political correctness. The magic word may have been changed to "please" to "I'm offended" whenever we're asking somebody for a favor.

One needs to take a look at one of the biggest causes of physical quarrels in today's society. Yesterday, gangs were killing each other over territorial control. Now, it looks like gangs are killing each other over mere insults. It just took a little name-calling with bad words or an insult over the Internet to trigger the killing. A teenager insulted a gang leader and he ended up paying dearly for it. The reason was that the gang leader was offended by something he could have just ignored.

The Social Justice Warriors (SJWs) are all about defending themselves because they're offended. They want to justify their being offended to why they do what they do. Have a preacher who tells them that homosexuality and the like are sins? They raise the "I'm offended!" card and they may get away with beating somebody to death. The preacher wasn't even threatening to gun them down like the Westboro Baptist Church or Steven Anderson would do - yet they want to make it look like that way anyway. It's all because they are offended!

The basic rule of self-defense is you're not allowed to hit anyone unless your life or well-being is in danger. Hitting someone over an insult is uncalled for. Yet, politically correct people can exaggerate the danger of them being offended. It's easy to even come up with an exaggerated story like saying said statement gave them sleepless nights, they couldn't eat properly or whatever lie that they can think off all because they're offended. The result of this may cause any politically correct judge to justify undue violence done by the perpetrator. Sometimes, it wasn't even an insult that offended them but an inconvenient truth which makes them even more wrong than hitting someone over an insult.

In the end, this would end up with people hurting each other even more. Forgiveness isn't very politically correct either. To be politically correct means to even avoid offense at all costs. How can you offer forgiveness if the person didn't offend you to start with? How can you even receive forgiveness until you've realized you've offended the person? How can you see the need for God's forgiveness until you have realized that you have offended Him? Forgiveness isn't something that's common resulting in most people getting stuck in the never-ending cycle of revenge.

See also:

• An Unforgiving Heart is Often Linked to Pride
• Crime, Corruption and Poverty Are Ever-Present Because We Live in a Fallen World
• God's Law is For Our Protection!
• Politically Correct People Tend to Think That They Have the Right to Offend Others But Not to be Offended By Others
• No Moral Absolutes Means No Human Rights
• Political Correctness Also Causes Legitimate Families to Run Out of Control
• Political Correctness is Doing More Harm Than Good to Children 
• Sinful People Want to Lock Up People Who Lovingly Tell Them the Truth
• When God Says No, He Means No
• The Hypocrisy of the Complete Tolerance Movement
• The Sin of Asking God to Bless Politically Correct People
• Whose Rights Are Politically Correct Organizations Defending Anyway?