William Oliver writes:
The bottom line is that if someone desperately wants to be offended, they will find a way. Conversely, if someone doesn't want to be offended, it's almost impossible to offend them. This seems to be a mysterious secret to a lot of people. Many years ago, I realized that being "offended" was completely up to me. I made the conscious decision not be be offended by anything anybody said to or about me, unless it served some particular tactical purpose. It was amazingly liberating.
I framed pretty much the same concept but in a different way. Some time ago I decided upon the following personal policy, or a principle: from now on my permission is required before anyone can offend me. If they did not get a personal permission from me to offend me, then they cannot offend me.
From that point on, nobody offended me unless I gave them explicit
permission to do so, first.
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