Taking offense is a negative emotion, correct? Not something that you would actively desire to feel. Then why would you encourage a viewpoint that requires that you feel offended, if your goal is to be happy? You can only be happy right now, if you're ever going to be happy. Giving up happiness now for the perceived chance of happiness later is a dead-end philosophy, because if less happy now = more happy later, then you will always be giving up happiness now in favor of a later bounty, which you will promptly sacrifice for a bounty further down the road. So taking offense delays your happiness just so that you can teach somebody a lesson. Kind of defeats the point, doesn't it?
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