[OT] Benefit and belief

[Ethan Furman]

Ben Finney wrote:
> But whoever takes that joke and says it's deliberately hurtful is being
> presumptuous and censorious and unreasonable. If they then castigate the
> joker for supposedly hurting someone's feelings, it's at that point the
> atmosphere turns hostile to discussion.

Um, wasn't it RantingRick who made this 'joke'?  Do you honestly believe 
he /wasn't/ trying to be offensive?

~Ethan~