I agree with you completely. Yet, expecting people to share ones sense of humour is like expecting them to believe the same things as one does. They simply *don't* find it funny, so they're gonna be offended, no matter how much levity was intended. It's like - sure, I have the freedom to laugh at someone and say, "Hah, you're a fucktard." But SHOULD I do that, if I know they're not going to like it?

The difference between you and some of the people that are offended is that you come from very different cultures. Not all cultures share the same ways of thinking or behaving. To expect them to be like us is arrogant, yet they're being just as arrogant in saying that we can't publish things like this. Aah, it's a shit-messy situation.