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We live in a litigious society, so I think personal offense is something you can capitalize on to punish the offender if you have the money. I think the government can and does try to keep a lid on large-scale hatespeech and organized, aimless discontent but not so much that people are muzzled from saying whatever dumb shit they believe at all.

I don't think 'being offended' is a justifiable excuse for publicly retaliating against someone unless there was an implication of danger or threat in what was said, but that's how the law works anyway. No death threats.

Now, I'm not sure what to say about your assessment of those certain typically offended people as Autistic or on the spectrum because being a loser on the internet who complains about everything is not something exclusive to or symptomatic of autism. I also see the same mentality exhibited by the desperately 'anti PC' through ceaseless crocodile tears and unironic, pointless hatred.

I think it's more about the era we live in giving people an avenue to be malcontent and miserable on some level, about something, if they choose to. everyone can find a soapbox to stand on, everyone has at some point or another championed (or argued against) a slacktivist cause cause simply to feel relevant and culturally valuable, and everyone has to at some point face the fact that they are fucking alone and it sucks and they're going to die.

I think people who get offended the way you describe to the point of excess just want to project the idea that they cherish their world more than you cherish yours so they can feel better about being pretty powerless against what's actually wrong with the world.