We’re listening and summing up the “good-person” rules:

1) if you’re worried that your work will offend, it probably will.
2) if you want to get ideas on how to mitigate that, talk to the people you worry about beforehand and try to make it better.
3) no matter what you do, rest assured that some people will be offended anyhow.
4) be open to the criticism that WILL come, take notes and think about ways to improve next time.

…and some guidelines for the “bad-persons”:

Also remember that sometimes art has to push boundaries. Sometimes art almost has an obligation to be provocative and break new ground in the social context it is trying to reflect… but be aware that you can never do that type of work and still be loved by everyone. For human culture to be complete and “alive” we need the a-holes as well. But you as the artist have to accept those terms if you are to be taken seriously. If you are aiming to provoke, don’t be a sourpuss when you get a reaction and people start hating you. After all, that is what you were aiming for, right?