The pond of our existence can be as smooth as glass, as turbulent and foreboding as a North Atlantic storm, or as beautiful as waves crashing along the Pacific shore. Whether we offend or take offense, the calm of our pond is dependent on the quantity of all which society chucks into it. Peace is dependent on understanding which comes from knowledge and education, and a tolerance we are willing to exercise so those around us can seek their own personal path to happiness; it is our willingness to live and let live. This, however, is a concept which runs contrary to the tenets of the League of the Perpetually Offended because the "live and let live" concept negates perpetuity of any desired feeling of offense for which they dedicate their own pleasantly masochistic feelings of misery here on earth.
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