they read it wrong or interpret it differently maybe. maybe someone is in a bad mood and takes it as being judgemental when another person takes is as a joke.. there are a number of reasons. with millions of different personalities and backgrounds, it would be hard to say. For instance yesterday I ran across a joke about homeless people and it was meant as a joke but I took it offensive..why? I was homeless last year and to me being homeless isn't funny. so things like that.

One person's trash is another's treasure.

Different perspectives. Why I avoid politics and religion at work.

People have different perspectives, so it's quite natural for two or more people to see things differently. You might find, though, that a person may reject an answer he previously found acceptable. Most people call this "changing one's mind". Politicians call it "flip-flopping". Strange, isn't it?

Everyone has different beliefs and perspectives. You will find this happening a LOT in almost any political, LGBT or religious questions. Some folks get downright nasty about anyone who doesn't believe the way they do, especially those who are bigots.

Not everyone has the same set of values and principles.

just as different medicines can be good for one person and bad for another so can the answers to life

Difference as well as change is what makes life so interesting ... If we were all the same with identical ideas and ideals it would be a very dull atmosphere we create. Thankyou

Not everybody has the same value system, and some people could feel - and maybe actually be - personally attacked by a particular statement. "The degree to which a profanity is offensive relies upon how the use of the word affects an individual. Some will consider the original meaning of a word (for example, the sexual act) to be offensive or a subject not fit for polite conversation while others will have no objection to these subject matters. Some will feel that certain words, having an established social taboo are simply offensive, regardless of any context; others will find profanities offensive mainly when used in a way deliberately intended to offend. Furthermore, some may be in the habit of using profanity in order to seem cool. Thus, insults can even be used as terms of endearment. Other situations in which profanity is celebrated include poetic slanging matches, or flytings, in which skill in the employment of vituperative attack becomes a virtue and considerable linguistic license is given to the combatants. A 2007 peer reviewed study by the University of East Anglia found that banning profanity in the workplace and reprimanding staff for using it could have a negative effect on morale and motivation. According to the study, while swearing in front of senior staff or customers should be seriously discouraged or banned, in other circumstances it helped foster solidarity among employees and relieved frustration, stress or other feelings.[2] Finally, profanities may cause offense, regardless of context, if they have some religious meaning which may cause their use to offend those who follow a particular religion. The original meaning of the term was restricted to blasphemy, sacrilege or saying the Abrahamic God's name (or an identifier such as Lord or God) in vain, such as "Jesus Christ, that was close!". Such religious profanity is referred to as blasphemy. As the concept of profanity has been extended to include expressions with scatological, derogatory, racist, or sexual interpretations, the broader concept of "politically incorrect" language has emerged, with religious meaning playing a varying role, and the more vague and inclusive interpretation blurring the distinction between categories of offensiveness. This modern concept of profanity has evolved differently in different cultures and languages. For example, many profanities in Canadian French are a corruption of religious terminology (the sacres), while many English obscenities tend to refer to sexuality or scatology. A term that functions as a profanity in one language may often lack any profane quality when translated into another language." Source and further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profanity

Can just be the "attitude" one has that day--or minute. Maybe they just woke up crabby that day...there seems to be a lot of those. lol