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I may have phrased that a tad hastily. Let me clarify what I meant. What I was trying to say is that, while one should not, in my opinion, actively TRY to be offensive (although people do anyway; look at Mark Millar), one should not shy away from including something solely because it might offend. That, in my opinion, is a fool's quest because one cannot HELP but offend SOMEONE. If you have something that you want to put in your story, and you believe it is appropriate in the context of the story, you should include it. This is not to say, of course, that stories which go out of their way to not offend are all bad, but they often can be.
And at this point, I wasn't really referring to the story in question. I was making a more general statement.