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True, it isn't being offended and lashing out that I so much feel the need to protest (obviously I'm opposed to killing or hurting anybody for treating a topic with less than demanded respect; but so long as their irrationality is contained to them I'll probably avoid setting them off needlessly) it is more when society seems to be caving in to those demands that I have an issue.
There used to be a guy who'd sit on a bench at the California Street cable car terminus and verbally berate people who caught his attention by doing something he didn't like. So just to avoid the hassle when I walked by I'd avoid doing those things I learned might set him off.
But the moment that the city said "you can't shake hands on the corner of Drumm and Market because it will make the crazy guy yell a lot" I would have been down there shaking hands with every passer by.
(Eventually the benches were removed and crazy guy disappeared, I hope they were moved because of crazy guy.)
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