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@upthecreekyetagain wrote:

The vast majority of laws are restrictive in nature.  The general assumption is that individuals are free to do what they want unless there is a law stopping them from doing so.

 

There is no law that says I can eat fish and chips on a Tuesday but I most certainly have a right to do so.

 

As far as I am aware there is no law that says I can't be offended by whatever I may select to be offended by.  De facto I have a right to be offended and equally the right not to be offended

 

Rights are legal, social, or ethical principles of freedom or entitlement; that is, rights are the fundamental normative rules about what is allowed of people or owed to people, according to some legal system, social convention, or ethical theory.

So is there a social convention or ethical theory that offers the right to be offended?