Freedom to offend is the entire point of freedom of speech. Before freedom of speech, we had classes that could straight up ruin people just for saying something they didn't want to hear.
Idk who downvoted you for that one, you're right... you say the wrong thing and it was pretty much "Off with their head!"... or "from the neck until the life leaves them".
Shit in Japan it was off with you head if you fucking didn't BOW correctly.
This is very true. Sadly it relies on intelligence, which isn't always found. One might have offended the church by suggesting the earth was older than doctrine thought, or theorizing evolution. One might have offended "polite society" by insisting blacks were intelligent people. Doctors were once offended at the suggestion they wash their hands before surgery as "a gentlemans hands are always clean" of one might offend by proclaiming their love for someoneof the same sex. Sometimes people tell us what needs said and not what is popular to say. This is where the freedom to offend is necessary. It isn't so vietuos when used as an excuse to be an asshole. But protecting one means living with the other; and the worlds always had more assholes than profound thinkers.
Shit in Japan it was off with you head if you fucking didn't BOW correctly.