be offended. be very offended.

I left the following as a comment on a recent failure, and I was just pleased enough with its coherence that I thought I would post it here:

Taking personal offense to something is a subjective experience. Everyone has the right to that experience, but what I don’t think they have the right to is asking somebody to take back something like this. Where do you draw the line? “OK, this is offensive, but that is not.” Great. What about me? What about that guy? What about the guy who hasn’t even entered the situation yet?

Be offended if you must, but leave it at that and move on.