Were you personally offended by Charlie Hebdo's anti-religious satire?

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No, and no one should.

While Charlie Hebdo's satire doesn't offend me, it's natural to feel offended at some points. People who claim they never been offended by any satire are less than sincere.

Of course, there's a fine difference between being offended and saying so out loud, and reacting with inexcusable violence. We shouldn't demonize those merely offended by Charlie Hebdo publications.

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What I meant is that no one should feel personally offended by a cartoon mocking their religion.

Why not? If there's a right to offend then surely there must also be a right to be offended. Which is, needless to say, completely different from a right to firebomb offices and/or gun down people at an editorial meeting.

I can't control other people's feelings, obviously. The point was that I strongly dislike the ideological ramifications of such feeling.

Please explain what do you mean by "ideological ramifications".