DPS: Why is it so dang taboo?

[AlphaFox]

I kinda have to agree, in a generation where you have to walk on eggshells to avoid offending anyone, at least in the US. People will find any reason to get mad, but I also can see it being in the way it is brought up to the person. I will gladly take advice and often ask for it but only if its done in a polite way and not one where I am being attacked.

[Ironos]

I kinda have to agree, in a generation where you have to walk on eggshells to avoid offending anyone, at least in the US.

I love how people act like this phenomena is new, and people love even more to blame "this generation." This isn't new, it's been around forever. It is impossible to not offend everyone, it's just much more obvious nowadays. Let's not forget the ages of when people were outright executed for "offending" certain people. The claims in this thread of so many people being coddled and "everyone is a winner mentality" seem kind of baseless too, unless they can provide objective proof of people in the world being so coddled. Also, connotation and tone are conveyed very, very poorly through text. Something that is meant politely might be read by the other person as offensive. The statement "Could you AoE please?" for example, can be read as either snide or polite.