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<blockquote data-quote="CreamCloud0" data-source="post: 9358448" data-attributes="member: 7034710">the issue i see with this point is that racial discrimination and biological essentialism IRL has always been made on ultimately superficial factors, the colour of your skin or the region you come from don't change the fact that you're human underneath all that, but oh wait hang on? what's this? these DnD species are quite literally not humans! their biologies can be constructed differently, being optimised for entirely different things, the sapience of a species is a separate matter from their adeptness at different kinds of information processing, but even within humans it's possible to observe differing levels of ability to excell at dealing with different kinds of information, if it's possible for one person's brain to be wired specifically to excell at social interactions but struggles at information retention i don't see why an entire species couldn't be wired that way as default.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="CreamCloud0, post: 9358448, member: 7034710"] the issue i see with this point is that racial discrimination and biological essentialism IRL has always been made on ultimately superficial factors, the colour of your skin or the region you come from don't change the fact that you're human underneath all that, but oh wait hang on? what's this? [I]these DnD species are quite literally not humans![/I] their biologies can be constructed differently, being optimised for entirely different things, the sapience of a species is a separate matter from their adeptness at different kinds of information processing, but even within humans it's possible to observe differing levels of ability to excell at dealing with different kinds of information, if it's possible for one person's brain to be wired specifically to excell at social interactions but struggles at information retention i don't see why an entire species couldn't be wired that way as default. [/QUOTE]

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