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<blockquote data-quote="Bedrockgames" data-source="post: 7511621" data-attributes="member: 85555"><p>You keep asserting that. But you haven't said anything to convince me.</p><p></p><p>Again, I think it is a mistake to look at someone from outside their own culture and assume you know how that culture influences their works and how their works reflect their beliefs. You are acting as if you have special access to this outsider or self aware perspective. No one is saying a person's culture doesn't influence their writing. We are questioning the assertion that this means a person's handling of villains and heroes in a game flows from their political beliefs. We are also questioning other peoples claims to know that person's worldview based on some setting details. The question is whether any of this influence has to have a meaningful impact on how your heroes and villains act. I don't think it does. I think people can create characters that don't express their political views, that are not meant to be political. And if the response to that is, everything is automatically political somehow, then again I think we are in the territory of expanding a term so much it has no real meaning anymore. </p><p></p><p>And I have to ask again, what is the ultimate point of this exercise? What conclusions/actions in and about gaming are we meant to draw from your assertions if we accept them? Are we meant to do anything differently because of them?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bedrockgames, post: 7511621, member: 85555"] You keep asserting that. But you haven't said anything to convince me. Again, I think it is a mistake to look at someone from outside their own culture and assume you know how that culture influences their works and how their works reflect their beliefs. You are acting as if you have special access to this outsider or self aware perspective. No one is saying a person's culture doesn't influence their writing. We are questioning the assertion that this means a person's handling of villains and heroes in a game flows from their political beliefs. We are also questioning other peoples claims to know that person's worldview based on some setting details. The question is whether any of this influence has to have a meaningful impact on how your heroes and villains act. I don't think it does. I think people can create characters that don't express their political views, that are not meant to be political. And if the response to that is, everything is automatically political somehow, then again I think we are in the territory of expanding a term so much it has no real meaning anymore. And I have to ask again, what is the ultimate point of this exercise? What conclusions/actions in and about gaming are we meant to draw from your assertions if we accept them? Are we meant to do anything differently because of them? [/QUOTE]
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