Insult is a social construct. By social I mean, in a given set of people we have a partial order called status or reputation, which assigns different rights to different people on how to conduct themselves in society. Insulting rights mostly come with higher status. We can perhaps rephrase and say that status is simply the right to insult and like status, insult is also sticky.
Everyone loves a new insult
Everyone loves a new insult
Everyone loves a new insult
Insult is a social construct. By social I mean, in a given set of people we have a partial order called status or reputation, which assigns different rights to different people on how to conduct themselves in society. Insulting rights mostly come with higher status. We can perhaps rephrase and say that status is simply the right to insult and like status, insult is also sticky.