Sensitivity

Sensitivity. Hyper-sensitivity. Offended. It seems that people are all too often "offended" or "embarrassed" by what others think or say. Since when did others' right of free expression become subordinate to the fact the you can't control your emotions to the point of having to scream "that's offensive"? You know, the fact that there are approximately seven billion people on earth that most likely don't share the same religious, cultural, or societal leanings as you should clue you in to the fact that not everyone is gonna share the same viewpoints on life as you. Someone disagrees with you? Someone make a post on social media that you don't particularly agree with? The simplest thing to do might be to tune it out - you know, just don't look at it. Instead, we've got a generation of folks who somehow stumbled into being able to use the internet(who most don't get the joke) that feel like they've got some kind of moral obligation to let you know that your opinion or sense of humor "offends" them, that it's inappropriate behavior. At what point did our society become so overly-sensitive that we feel the need to let other people's opinions affect us to the point that we become "offended?" Just how righteous do you feel you need to be to let someone else know that their opinion is different than yours, and thus ultimately must be incorrect or inappropriate? Wouldn't it be a lot simpler to disassociate your self - or at least your online self - from people that might offend you? Or is it just that much better to portray a sense of self-righteousness to stick around and see what these people say or post or laugh at and then let them know that you think it's inappropriate? It baffles me. Really. I mean, you are entitled to your own opinion, but if that opinion is one of being in a state of disapproval of others opinions, why not do everyone a favor and just block it out?