There is no such thing as objectively offensive material.

Offence is a social construct. What offends one group delights another. Across time and space, generation and location, what upsets people is as different as is absolute their certainty that they are right and everyone else is wrong.

This raises two questions. How do we know when what we write is offensive? How can we control whether our material is offensive if offense is subjective? Is it justifiable to offend and what if we want to anyway?

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