What kind of person is never insulted or offended?
January 26, 2008 11:00 AM   Subscribe

What sort of person is never insulted or offended? What sort of person would this be? A saint, or someone with no moral sense to offend? Or would it be a person with such a great understanding of his boundaries - the separateness between himself and others - that nothing gets under his skin? Would such a person have other traits as well - if he's never insulted, can he also never be moved by praise? Is he a sociopath? An autistic? If he never feels offense is he also never affected by sympathy, does he never feel embarassed on someone else's behalf? In what way are insult and offense part of our human nature? How did they give humans a survival advantage as we evolved? And if I were able to train myself to never be insulted or offended, would I lose something essential? Would I lose my connectedness to others? Your random thoughts welcome.
posted by PoopyDoop to Religion & Philosophy (2 answers total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: This is pretty stream-of-consciousness and chatfiltery. If you want to rethink this and nail it down to a more specific answerable question, you might try again next week, but as it is the fact that you're asking for "random thoughts" kind of sums up the problem with the post. -- cortex

 
I count over 12 different sentences ending in question marks here. Perhaps you could distill your question down to one or two statements?

Also, this is really chat-filterish...
posted by wfrgms at 11:06 AM on January 26, 2008


Best answer: I imagine this might be deleted as chat-filter, but -- I used to be very sensitive to offense, and am now very thick-skinned. For me it is getting older, being more situated in myself as opposed to other people, realizing the separateness between myself and others, and 16 years as a lawyer (where people are rude to you on a near-daily basis). I find it freeing. (I am still a bit shocked when random road rage is directed toward me, especially when I'm innocent -- innocent!)

As to your other questions, I do find it harder and harder to relate to other adults being very sensitive to insult. I still offer sympathy, but inside think, "Why do you care? I wouldn't care."
posted by ClaudiaCenter at 11:09 AM on January 26, 2008


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