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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MoonSong" data-source="post: 7511181" data-attributes="member: 6689464">I'm more of the idea that it's the other way around, one's own perspectives, thoughts, and morals shape our political views. Or at least it goes both ways. I have a problem with this -funny how we agree on lots of stuff but this isn't the case-, art is a fuzzy thing, but the one thing that makes art, art is intentionality. No intentionality, no art. No art, no statement. And the onus of the statement falls on the person that intends to make something art. Otherwise no communication is possible. If I DM a game and YOU decide to make it into art, then the statement is yours to make, not mine. What you want to do is to turn what I do into art and then attribute the statement you make to me. And that is just so unkind to do. At least from where I come from, putting words into someone's mouth is just plain rude. And in this case you are putting words into people's mouths when they are silent. That is an extreme overreach. And again, which/whose status quo? from what point in time? Things aren't exactly black and white, and the status quo isn't uniform across the globe. The problem is that you are assuming too much, for starters that the other person lives in the same culture as you, and that any silence is by need intentional. I could write an adventure that is a subtle dig at something relevant to my immediate environment, but that reference is completely lost on anybody that doesn't share that same environment. Then someone from another country finds that since the adventure lacks a message -that is there but is completely invisible to that person- it automatically tries to be apolitical and thus condones the status quo and ergo I've got to be fully in support of that person's status quo, and that by extension I approve of everything in it. Hey I might even share some of that person's values but this all or nothing has robbed me of my own voice so they will never know.Edit: A core principle in Roman style law is that someone who remains silent doesn't state, but doesn't deny either.</blockquote>

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