I mean that's the core of most alignment arguments. That everything will be fine if we all agree to play and view them the way I tell you. Now shut up an accept it when I the Great and Powerful DM tell you you're evil for offending my personal morals.
It's not an appeal to popularity unless I leave it at, "It's right, because it's popular." Since my argument is about it being useful, including the fact that the majority of us find alignment useful is not an appeal to popularity. My argument is about its usefulness, not about simple numbers. The numbers are just additive at that point.
No peoples are tarred anything in an imaginary game where no real world peoples are being mirrored. Here's the thing. It has been proven that things like violence in games don't make people more violent. Same with things like good and evil. In fact, good and evil are going to live on in D&D whether alignment is there or not.
If their legacy lives on, then removing alignment won't change anything. I'd also like to see your factual numbers proving that there are "thousands of games where those books live on in 5e via DM fiat" where you also have factual numbers on any harm done by it.
Nobody is telling you to play it their way. We are telling you not to use it if YOU find it useless, not to take it away from those of us who do find it useful and are not now, nor ever will be harmed by it. You don't get to make it useless to us, nor do you to make it "harm" us.
It describes “fictional” peoples (specifically creatures that are made manifest from these meta physical aspects).
And your warped instance that it’s anything other is the culture I’m talking about. It’s the exact same language of control and ignorance the satanic panic used. Cut it out.
No. That's just your circular logic. It's harmful because I say it is, and if you can't see it, well than that just proves that it's harmful.
As someone who is Jewish and has had(and is still happening worldwide) had his people attacked and discriminated against, also involving stories, I disagree with you on D&D. Stories in the real world about real world people are VERY different that imaginary things involving imaginary peoples.
If you have bad guys, you are going to say bad things about them. We are limited by what we can imagine, what our language can describe. It doesn't matter how I organize a group of "bad" creatures, if the creatures are intelligent someone will make an association between that group and real world people are cultures. If I say that blargs (whether a specific species, religious group or political organization) are violent, dangerous and unpredictable it will eventually be associated to some real world group.
Exactly! It definitely deels like the “Good-Evil” axis is supposed to be “stronger” than the “Law-Chaos” axis, although this tends not be explicitly called out in the materials.
