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Originally Posted by Mrluvaluva

Of course you can give offence if you cause someone to feel offended. As in they caused offence because....

No, sorry.

The responsibility for becoming offended lies with the listener. A person has agency and chooses to be offended or not. You can not like something or disagree with a thing but being offended is an emotional reaction that an individual can control, just as those with anger issues can do the work to control that.

We won't even talk about the people who actively seek-out offence. They would cross the road to be offended. They relish the social credit that being offended can give them... The power over the other.