> Le_Forgeron<jgr### [at] freefr>  wrote:
>> There is no shame to
>> be different as long as not stubborn to insist on strict equality for
>> all: you should done as much as you can for others, and nobody should
>> despise another one.)... alas, there is no more place in todays world
>> for duel when two disagrees.
>
>    Moreover, trying to shield people from hurt feelings by imposing a
> form of newspeak can be actually more harmful than good.
>
>    In human biology, extreme hygiene, especially on children, can actually
> be more harfmul than good in the long run: The immune system does not get
> exposed to the harmful microbes of the world, and thus doesn't build up
> resistance to them. If this continues for long, especially on young people,
> such a person can become very weak to diseases that normally people wouldn't
> even notice, or would only cause small symptoms.
>
>    I believe the same is true of the mind: If you never get exposed to
> unpleasant ideas and words, if you are raised in a protective bubble where
> you are shielded from ever hearing them, when you do finally encounter
> them in real life, you may get emotionally scarred.
>
>    This is especially true for people who deliberately *choose* to consider
> some things negative that most people deem as completely normal. If they
> *choose* to deliberately get offended by what's normally considered ok
> than that's *their* own fault. They do not get to dictate what words others
> can and cannot use.
>

Any child that is not exposed to armfull microbes and other germs is 
highly suceptible to devlop alergies.

In a similar way, if you are not exposed to so called "objectionable" 
words, you may become overly sensitive to them or other that may vaguely 
look or sound similar.

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