A Sermon for the Age of Offence

Respect: Humanity’s Dumbest Suicide Pact

Or, How Hurt Feelings Became a Weapon of the Weak and the Creed of the Cowardly

“There is no right not to be offended; only the right not to listen.”

— Christopher Hitchens

Respect is the altar upon which otherwise ordinary people immolate themselves, and—just as often—others. From duelling aristocrats to road-raging accountants, from tribal elders burying…