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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 8351624" data-attributes="member: 7006">At the end of the day... if you choose to include ideas and actions in your game that some people will think are morally objectionable, you are perfectly allowed to do so.  But if you are going to do it and people call you out on it, at least have the gumption to embrace it rather than trying to worm your way out of it by giving "explanations" for why it's happening (as though it was through no fault of your own) or even worse... trying to gaslight people into thinking "No, it's not actually objectionable, you're wrong for thinking that!"People believe what they believe regarding morals.  Some beliefs are held by a small numbers of people, some by exceedingly large.  The smaller the number, the easier it is to ignore their comments or just not think about / consider them.  But the more people begin thinking about them and coming to the same moral conclusions... the more society evolves to embrace those moral beliefs on a larger scale... the harder time you will have living with your status quo if you're trying to avoid getting called out.If any of us don't want to be thought of as dickheads... we have two choices:  Either stop doing the thing that makes people think we are dickheads... or go off and hide our dickheadishness so that people don't know it.  Personally though... I think the latter is cowardly.  At least have the guts to embrace being thought of as a dickhead so the rest of us can learn from your example of what being a dickhead looks like.</blockquote>

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