>> >> Yes, I take the point...but what I meant was, if the recipient finds it
>> funny,
>> >> then they themselves are not offended by it, are they?
>>
>> Personally I can find a joke to be funny but still offensive. Both concepts are
>> matters of degree.
>>
Yes, yes, it can be offensive, but you yourself are not offended.
You can have:
- non offensive and no one offended
- offensive and no one offended
- offensive and someone offended
and presumably
- non offensive and someone offended
If a recipient has no real problem with it..why would it need to be censured just because someone else might be?*....let the other person deal with it.
Half the time the people some folk think will be offended are not.
* unless it were so glaringly obviously over the top..e.g. Frankie Boyle on occasions