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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 5216585" data-attributes="member: 177">No problem, especially because there's a part here that clearly didn't get across.The problem isn't that you hurt some poor widdle bitty DM's feelings.  The problem is that such analysis wedges a real world with multiple dimensions of continuous variations into an overly simplistic on-off switch, and then couches it in terms already known to engage people's egos instead of their intellects.Yeah, well, there's approaching seven billion people on the planet.  We're already constantly rubbing against people in our workaday life, so by the time folks get here, the thick skin's warn down.  We have to learn to work with them, not butt heads all the time. Sometimes that means considering how we say things.  It isn't always walking on eggshells - just taking your audience into account more often.Are you interested in discussion?  The black and white way we tend to say things is not very good at generating intelligent discussion - it lacks the nuance required for discussion.  However, it is very good at creating argument.If you came here for an argument, I think we should just go to the Monty Python sketch and be done with it.[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teMlv3ripSM]YouTube - Monty Python - Argument Clinic[/ame]</blockquote>