Faolyn
(she/her)
No, not really. Y'all have tried to bring in poor metaphors and I've gone with them.No I can understand that. But you're pivoting, once again in the argument (some call it goal post shifting)
You've argued genre
You've argued lets be sensitive to victims within the fiction
You've argued let's throw away this colour because we can draw with other colours
You've argued everything or nothing verisimilitude
Others have argued age recommendation (not sure if you have)
You guys have tried to say that what's OK in a horror game should be OK in a lighter heroic fantasy, which says that you don't understand the difference between different types of games or what's appropriate in each genre.
You guys have said that people who don't want to play in a game that involves slavery should find another game, which says that you don't care about being sensitive to real people in the real world.
You guys have tried to say that you have to include every color for a game to be worthwhile or rich, which says that you think that slavery is necessary for verisimilitude, that games aren't as full or real without it, to the point that you are willing to ignore all the other things that make a setting interesting.
You guys have tried to say that slavery is needed for the game to feel real while not caring about anything else that feels real, which says that it's not verisimilitude you care about; it's treating slavery as a fun plot point.
Sure, warning labels are fine. D&D is labeled for people who are 12 years old. No amount of warning labels are going to change that or make slavery appropriate for that age group, at least according to WotC and Hasbro, and it's unlikely that WotC and Hasbro are going to start producing an adult line. I don't know what age groups Eclipse Phase is marketed to, or if they're beholden to a major toy company that markets to children, which means comparisons between them and WotC are not useful.Now if you're willing to stick with this pivot, this hopefully final pivot - my meet you half way remark (which was posted some 10-15 pages back) would be, how about a warning label? Eclipse Phase which deals with worse stuff doesn't have one but I'm meeting you half way and asking - are you ok with a warning label for a product that deals with this such as a Dark Sun setting book or a DS adventure? Can you meet me half way?