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Originally posted by Tseng


Incorrect. An insult is not defined as necessarily negative - for something to be an insult, it must be offensive, by definition. Thus, you could insult someone by saying "My, you look nice today!" when in fact they might have mud on their face and clothing.

As for them serving a purpose, I doubt that telling some random person on the street "F--- YOU!" would serve any purpose at all, other than offending them. I believe you are mixing up "insult" and "criticize."



Disproven.



Irrelevant.



More mental development would give someone the mental power to simply shrug off an offensive comment, would it not? Right and wrong is not at issue here, as you said.



In this case, he refers to stereotypical. Normal was not the best choice of words.



I'm sorry your experiences with grandparents have been other than nice.



His post nowhere implies that you can never fully mature - it implies that someone who is more mature would not be calling someone else "immature", becuase they would be wiser than to do so.



Regardless of who defines mature as what, do you not agree that objectively, someone with more mental development would be able to shrug off insults directed at him/her? And would you also agree that when one reaches a certain stage of mental development, it would become unnecessary for them to label other people as "immature"?

That's what I get for trying to debate at 5AM.