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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 8533139" data-attributes="member: 6790260">I'm saying it's been a lot more than one person. I don't want to stir up cross-forum drama (particularly since at least two of the users in question have been banned from said other forum), but I can think of at least three people who openly and explicitly sought this out. And, beyond that, there's been plenty of people in all the threads about "they're making alignment POINTLESS?!" we had last year who have explicitly said it bothers them that this move is taking away <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/rip-alignment.678700/page-6#post-8217316" target="_blank">easy automatic target creatures</a>, or that they'd rather <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/rip-alignment.678700/page-18#post-8217786" target="_blank">delete orcs entirely</a> than water down alignment, or that they have no problem with <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/i-thought-wotc-was-removing-biological-morals.681926/page-11#post-8367975" target="_blank">"evil monsters no matter what form they take or what fluff is given."</a> (That last one, incidentally, is a post you yourself liked, hence why I'm a little gobsmacked you seem to think this is a rare one-off opinion, rather than the semi-common but far from universal opinion it appears to be.)Now, maybe most of them also give fig-leaf excuses...but you should keep in mind, as noted earlier in this thread, that real-world people have been using fig-leaf excuses like that to justify IRL atrocities for a very, very long time. We call it "dehumanization" for a reason. It's part of what makes this whole thing so tricky; we have literally thousands of years (and, for the US in specific, the vast majority of our history) of classifying certain groups of real people as either non-people, inferior people, or officially acceptable targets (e.g. the "Curse of Ham" explanation for why it was supposedly okay, even righteous, to enslave Africans. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f922.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":sick:" title="Sick    :sick:"  data-smilie="19"data-shortname=":sick:" />)</blockquote>

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