I don't see them as having any more of a sense of entitlement then you do.
I see a great difference between people who require that something be changed because it offends them, and my pointing out that that's arrogant, narcissistic, and selfish. I'm not saying I'm entitled to anything; they're saying they're entitled not to be offended.
Why does anyone besides FFG have the right to object to people asking for changes in their product? FFG wants to alter the game to suit them. You're being selfish and harmful in interfering with FFG in its attempt to find out what its customers want.
Your questions are built on fundamentally incorrect premises. First, my pointing out the selfishness of the people who require something to not offend their sensibilities in no way impedes FFG from changing their own product. Second, everyone has the right to object to something - they don't have the right to say that because they object to it, it must be altered.
Everyone has things they don't like, and reasons that they don't like it. It's when they say that these reasons constitute a basis for it needing to be changed that they've gone too far.
I have never seen it as part of the menu to have no tomato on your burger. If you want arbitrary changes at a food place, there's a good chance they will go along with what you want if they can (at some price).
Sometimes you have to ask the waiter.
Again, you can
ask if something can be changed. You can't demand that something be deleted from the menu.
So you admit there are times when it's okay to ask for changes in a product. Again, there will be one final Fortress America; people aren't asking that it be taken off the menu, they're asking for it to be on the menu in a form edible for them.
I always said that it was okay to ask for changes. It's not okay to say that things must be changed for your sake. People
are asking for a menu-change - they're saying "I don't like this, make sure it's altered just for me."
Don't tell me there's a misunderstanding; show me.
I just did.
There's no threat or ultimatum involved.
There is. When you say "this must be changed to match my world-view," you're stating that you no longer recognize something's right to exist (as it is now). That's an implicitly threatening statement.
I don't know how you think they should conduct a Presidential election in your world;
I don't know how you conduct debates in yours, since you make flame statements like "how they do things in your world."
If you can't keep the debate polite, perhaps you should consider no longer participating in it.
every statement is an assertion that your candidate and only your candidate should be president. That's a much more serious demand for conformity then asking that a reprint of a game have a theme palatable to you.
This is, again, fundamentally wrong. A more accurate analogy would be to say that a candidate who doesn't agree with you on everything needs to be killed for it.
And their statement that they don't want the theme to be changed is an attack on what I like. I don't see why we should dance around the fact that we have different desires for what Fortress America will be and that we can't both win. Let us both advocate loudly for our position, and FFG can choose who to listen to.
You can advocate your position as much as you want. But when your position is "I don't like this - because of that, you need to change this for me," then you're not advocating anything except that your opinion is somehow more weighty than that of others.
They're not saying that FFG can't exist, either. They're saying that a piece of mass-produced product shouldn't have a certain theme, and you're saying that individual statements of personal opinion shouldn't have a certain theme. I find the latter much more oppressive.
Another fundamentally incorrect statement. They're saying that this must conform to their personal beliefs. I'm saying that no one has the right to make others - or the work of others - conform to their personal beliefs. If you find the former statement less oppressive than the other, then you're misguided.
