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Billions of people could be insulted by single sentence. Nobody is being abused. We may not even know that they are insulted. Even if we did, the insult is their inference, and contextualised by them.
Let's take religion as an example.
Say someone declares their opinion that belief in a sky wizard is idiotic.
Billions may be offended by that.
They don't have a right not to be insulted (either actively or passively) by that.
That neither condones nor normalises that person's opinion on sky wizards.
NotThamesWater
So what is it then? Because I can't see how not having a right to not be insulted doesn't essentially condone and normalise abuse. How exactly are you reconciling that this isn't the case?
And yes, I am conflating abuse and insult. I accept that my opinion is probably very biased on that though. Working in domestic abuse it's, perhaps, difficult not to see how insults are a form of abuse. If you want to expand on why you think they aren't then I would be quite interested to hear what you have to say.