@cazzie oh, but that is exactly what we do. Inflict, give, bless, bestow, grant, endow, all mean the same thing here.

And I thoroughly and utterly disagree that it is a meaningless question, or that it is irrelevant as “why should we eat if we’re just going to shit?”

We should always be open to questioning whether our behaviors are ethical, especially when they directly affect other people. When we demand that people accept that certain things are right to do without question, we fall to complacency and thoughtlessness. We debase ourselves by letting other people decide rightfulness and wrongfulness for us.

Not questioning leads to people doing things for no other reason than “it’s just what people do” and because they don’t want to go against the crowd. It leads to people doing things which they really shouldn’t, because the question of whether they should never even crossed their minds.

As rational people, we should be able to think about a person’s argument and approach it from a place of dispassion. We should be able to react to it without offense and hostility, even if we personally disagree with it.

My question and arguments have offended you, and so you have written them off as having no meaning. But why does it offend you so much?