what is offensive to a reasonable person, who knows what that means?
There are reasonable people living in Shoshone, Idaho and Soho, New York. I bet there are some wildly varying opinions on what is offensive. We are all potentially subject to irreverent prying. Everyone, sooner or later, is famous for something or other, in some pond, big or small. So we had better resolve how we feel about the fuzzy subject of truth. The different shades of truth — the exaggerations of it, the withholding and revealing of it — are the narratives of our lives. What a person shows to the world, what he doesn’t show, are the ways he defines himself. It is where personality is born. The danger comes about when in our self-defining moments we stray a little too far from reality. Solipsism is not a viable way of life on a planet with five and a half billion people. Just beyond solipsism is insanity. It is a slippery slope, but one worth negotiating. It is said that the truth will set you free. Maybe. But half truths and mystery and self revelation make us a lot more inter
