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<blockquote data-quote="Magnus" data-source="post: 56941" data-attributes="member: 588">apologies in advance ...i may take some flack for this, but:after reading the title to this tread on the boards, i couldn't help thinking, that word kinda gets thrown around in that sentence a lot, without anyone ever thinking about it. you kinda automatically expect rape to go with pillage and plunder when talking about marauding armies. then i started to think about the last fantasy book i read which had that sort of thing in it, which was one of the Sword of Truth books by Terry Goodkind. it seemed to happed a lot in those books. without much by way of consequences.it occurs to me that perhaps people don't really take it as seriously as they should. i mean, does anyone ever really stop to think about the consequences of it. we all say that line at some point of other, in passing. me too. but it's reality seems to have gotten buried under some sort of familiarity. then again, i suppose, why would they? isn't it just easier to just to soften it, and make it into something that's less painful? even if it's only in our minds? since we can't change reality, we change fantasy? i don't know. i just feel that it gets thrown around a little too loosely.now, i'm not trying to be the killjoy or just be all &quot;preachy&quot; here, or anything like that. i'm not even really sure what i actually wanted to accomplish by saying any of this. truthfully, i passed up writing this twice already. but after the thought made itself known, i just kinda had to put it down. not to, felt like a betrayal of my own conscience. so, i apologize if i upset anyone, or if i ruin anyone's fun. but i kinda, sorta, had to say it.*edit to remove the disclaimer at the top*</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Magnus, post: 56941, member: 588"] [b]apologies in advance ...[/b] i may take some flack for this, but: after reading the title to this tread on the boards, i couldn't help thinking, that word kinda gets thrown around in that sentence a lot, without anyone ever thinking about it. you kinda automatically expect rape to go with pillage and plunder when talking about marauding armies. then i started to think about the last fantasy book i read which had that sort of thing in it, which was one of the Sword of Truth books by Terry Goodkind. it seemed to happed a lot in those books. without much by way of consequences. it occurs to me that perhaps people don't really take it as seriously as they should. i mean, does anyone ever really stop to think about the consequences of it. we all say that line at some point of other, in passing. me too. but it's reality seems to have gotten buried under some sort of familiarity. then again, i suppose, why would they? isn't it just easier to just to soften it, and make it into something that's less painful? even if it's only in our minds? since we can't change reality, we change fantasy? i don't know. i just feel that it gets thrown around a little too loosely. now, i'm not trying to be the killjoy or just be all "preachy" here, or anything like that. i'm not even really sure what i actually wanted to accomplish by saying any of this. truthfully, i passed up writing this twice already. but after the thought made itself known, i just kinda had to put it down. not to, felt like a betrayal of my own conscience. so, i apologize if i upset anyone, or if i ruin anyone's fun. but i kinda, sorta, had to say it. *edit to remove the disclaimer at the top* [/QUOTE]

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