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Message: <blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 5830543" data-attributes="member: 3400">I wouldn't exactly equate violence with hate. It's entirely possible to hate something without getting violent toward it just as it's possible to be violent toward something you don't hate. But I would, in fact, say that there are times hate is an appropriate reaction and should be expressed rather than saying nothing at all. Gandhi, in fact, had many things to say about the abysmally racist system that was the Raj that were not nice but that needed to be said.And no, I'm not offering moral equivalency to people getting their hate on about George Lucas and his fumbling and feeble movie-making. I have an abiding disgust and disappointment with Lucas and his hubris and the terrible choices he's made with his movies. I think people tend to go a bit overboard on Lucas. But it's not for me to say or even imply that people shouldn't have more strident feelings than mine or that mine are superior.EDIT: By the way, I've certainly said that people get themselves a bit too worked up about things that are essentially ephemeral. But I consciously try to avoid that now. If the edition wars have taught me anything, they've taught me that one of the most vexing things to experience is someone trying to saying your feelings are somehow illegitimate, not as important, inferior, or otherwise dismissible when they are honestly held. I think that sort of thing drove a lot of bitterness and I see it happening now in the 5e forum as well.</blockquote>

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