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<blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 8665129" data-attributes="member: 6790260"><p>I'm not. <em>That's the point</em>.</p><p></p><p>You're the one saying that there is one, and only one, valid standard: "objective" history and "objective" culture, "accuracy" trumping <em>absolutely</em> all other considerations, without ANY further need for thought or effort on the creator's part. If it's accurate, it's the right thing to do; if it's not accurate, it's the wrong thing to do. The <em>one and only</em> question you think people need to ask is, "Is this something that would have happened in the time and place in question?"</p><p></p><p>I have repeatedly said things like "accuracy is a tool," emphasizing that it is one tool among many. I have repeatedly said that these questions are <em>difficult</em> and that they simply do not have universal answers. I have explicitly, and at great (probably tedious!) length, specified that there IS no simple standard, no bar you can clear and then be absolutely justified under all possible circumstances. I have given real, practical examples about how this sort of thing can be <em>extremely</em> complicated and that absolutes and universals, if they exist at all, are liable to be weak at best. I have specified, more than once, that it is a matter of judicious thought, of carefully weighing various concerns, and then making a choice. To steal and repurpose the phrasing used by the Bureaucratic Deva from OotS: "You must do what you think is best, to the limit of your abilities—including your ability to judge what is best." You will, almost certainly, make mistakes. Making a good-faith effort to prevent them, and a good-faith effort to <em>address</em> them when you end up making mistakes anyway, is what matters. Not a lack of fault, but real work to avoid fault, and real work to fix your faults when they show up. Because, eventually, they will; nobody's perfect.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Am I everyone?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="EzekielRaiden, post: 8665129, member: 6790260"] I'm not. [I]That's the point[/I]. You're the one saying that there is one, and only one, valid standard: "objective" history and "objective" culture, "accuracy" trumping [I]absolutely[/I] all other considerations, without ANY further need for thought or effort on the creator's part. If it's accurate, it's the right thing to do; if it's not accurate, it's the wrong thing to do. The [I]one and only[/I] question you think people need to ask is, "Is this something that would have happened in the time and place in question?" I have repeatedly said things like "accuracy is a tool," emphasizing that it is one tool among many. I have repeatedly said that these questions are [I]difficult[/I] and that they simply do not have universal answers. I have explicitly, and at great (probably tedious!) length, specified that there IS no simple standard, no bar you can clear and then be absolutely justified under all possible circumstances. I have given real, practical examples about how this sort of thing can be [I]extremely[/I] complicated and that absolutes and universals, if they exist at all, are liable to be weak at best. I have specified, more than once, that it is a matter of judicious thought, of carefully weighing various concerns, and then making a choice. To steal and repurpose the phrasing used by the Bureaucratic Deva from OotS: "You must do what you think is best, to the limit of your abilities—including your ability to judge what is best." You will, almost certainly, make mistakes. Making a good-faith effort to prevent them, and a good-faith effort to [I]address[/I] them when you end up making mistakes anyway, is what matters. Not a lack of fault, but real work to avoid fault, and real work to fix your faults when they show up. Because, eventually, they will; nobody's perfect. Am I everyone? [/QUOTE]
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