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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 8032713">No, this is not what I said at all. And yes it has occurred to me that I am wrong (has it occurred to you that you might be wrong, or overstating things?). I always try to consider the possibility that I am wrong. But I also have a pretty high bar for accepting peoples' arguments about this stuff. And you are missing the point of what I am saying. I am not saying I am worried about people saying they find things problematic in the game. As I said many times in this thread, people criticizing OA is fine. I think them putting up those videos of OA is perfectly healthy for discussion. Where I draw the line is people asking for content to be controlled or taken down. I draw the line at people saying "X is now not even allowable because I have decided this for everyone." And in this case, in this thread, but also elsewhere online, the argument around the subject of censoring content has shifted to the argument that it is somehow necessary because RPGs are uniquely dangerous, and not at all like other forms of media. That is the argument I was responding to in this post, and that was the point I was trying to make. I am worried that people are so concerned about content they find problematic, that they are approaching it with the same kind of rhetoric we used to hear from the religious right during the Satanic panic. Which was something like RPGs are uniquely powerful and potentially dangerous media and therefore we need to control RPG content more. That is the critique I am saying people find alarming.I don't understand the connection here. What does my statement about games not having power over you unless you allow them to have power over you, in any way connect with someone using racial slurs against you? We are talking about the influence media has on real life behavior. And I am saying, RPGs are not brainwashing people. We are not mindlessly consuming them, and we don't need a priest caste to protect us from potentially difficult, problematic or challenging content. That is all.</blockquote>

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