Let's try some constructive critism...

[Alexander]

See, but one problem with that is that you're putting a "no-stamp" on anything that anyone might find offensive. Blonde jokes are out of the question. People are bound to be blonde here(Well, I do have blondish-brown hair). We probably have many races too, can't do that. We have males and females, so no gender-oriented jokes. How about school jokes? No, someone's bound to be too poor to go to school and will find it offensive people would make fun of an educational system. Ok, fine. Dogs! A joke about dogs! No, someone lived in a country where dogs were outlawed and shot on sight, and the persons poor old yeller took buckshot to the face. Ice cream cones?! No, someone got in an unfortunate accident with a snow cone and lost their eye sight when they were five. It's not funny to joke about ice cream with that person around. There's bound to be someone to find just about anything offensive. So new rule: No jokes. Period.

Sounds a little crazy and maybe things won't go quite that far. But none the less the inevitability will stretch along many different subjects. Quite honestly, I think people just need to remove the stick from their rears and lighten up. Before I get flamed for that one too, I'm by no means speaking blindly here. I may not come from a country with national slave-problems, but I do come from a home with horrible alcoholic problems. And by horrible I mean "lifetime movie" special. But if you want to make a joke about howwww I "drive worse then a drunk with one eye and three wheels." I'll laugh. Er...did I just offend someone? If I did, pre-emptive apology, but I'm trying to make a point and as you can imagine, I'm not approving of alcoholism or saying it's ok.

I could go on, but really, I think some people just need a sense of humor about things. Getting all stuck-up about everything solves...what?

On a closing note though, I by no means don't respect what Scott has said. I do, and if this is what it comes down to, then whatever. Just my perspective on the whole issue.