Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 8390745" data-attributes="member: 6801228">Pretty simple actually. On the face of it the idea that our only two options in the face of a problem of the status quo are to either throw out everything and destroy the concepts of fantasy or accept the status quo as not having a problem are too extreme and too radical. There is likely a lot of nuance, many places in the middle of the pack that we could stop before tossing aside everything and burning it all to the ground. I don't agree that the problem with ASIs is that they are racist, though I can see the argument that they share an uncomfortable amount of DNA with ideas like Eugenics. But, when talking more broadly about racist, sexist, ableist and other -ists that are problematic in the portrayal of fantasy races, I don't think the place we are going to end up is &quot;abandon all fantasy races&quot;. Can I tell you where we will end up of the next 100 years? No, I'm not magic or a super-genius. This is a thorny issue, people are going to be struggling with it, just like we are currently struggling with similar issues in similar media. This has some rings of issues with &quot;Can I portray a woman as attractive without being sexist&quot; that comes up in many forms of media. These aren't easy questions to answer, they are incredibly hard and we probably won't have a great solution in our lifetimes. But that doesn't mean the answer is to throw up our hands, and say we either keep the status quo or we allow anarchy and chaos to take over because nothing matters.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Chaosmancer, post: 8390745, member: 6801228"] Pretty simple actually. On the face of it the idea that our only two options in the face of a problem of the status quo are to either throw out everything and destroy the concepts of fantasy or accept the status quo as not having a problem are too extreme and too radical. There is likely a lot of nuance, many places in the middle of the pack that we could stop before tossing aside everything and burning it all to the ground. I don't agree that the problem with ASIs is that they are racist, though I can see the argument that they share an uncomfortable amount of DNA with ideas like Eugenics. But, when talking more broadly about racist, sexist, ableist and other -ists that are problematic in the portrayal of fantasy races, I don't think the place we are going to end up is "abandon all fantasy races". Can I tell you where we will end up of the next 100 years? No, I'm not magic or a super-genius. This is a thorny issue, people are going to be struggling with it, just like we are currently struggling with similar issues in similar media. This has some rings of issues with "Can I portray a woman as attractive without being sexist" that comes up in many forms of media. These aren't easy questions to answer, they are incredibly hard and we probably won't have a great solution in our lifetimes. But that doesn't mean the answer is to throw up our hands, and say we either keep the status quo or we allow anarchy and chaos to take over because nothing matters. [/QUOTE]

Verification