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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Buttercup" data-source="post: 507584" data-attributes="member: 990">You speak for me.I'd just like to add a few things.  Harking back to the 'Moral Compass' thread, I'd like to point out that D&D does in fact encourage players to kill thinking creatures that are different from themselves and take their stuff.  But claiming that this is the beginning of a slippery slope into real life racism is, to be polite, an extreme position.  It's not unlike those who say that watching cartoon animals bonk each other on the head leads children to violence, or even that rap music lyrics about rape will encourage teen boys to rape their girlfriends.The bottom line is that none of these things are whollly true, and none of them are wholly false.  Let's take the violent images argument as an example.  If you are a kid who has emotional problems, and your parents aren't paying attention to your needs, and you are alienated in school, and you spend most of your free time watching violent Television or playing violent computer games, then maybe, *possibly* this barrage of images would push you over the edge you've already been clinging to.  If you're a reasonably well adjusted kid though, you will be unharmed just like the rest of us.  The D&D/racism connection is the same.  If you have a propensity to those attitudes, I suppose that D&D might *possibly* encourage you.But that isn't the fault of D&D, just like violence perpetrated by teens isn't the fault of TV or video games.  If we eliminate everything from this world that might *possibly* encourage bad behavior in someone, we'll be left with nothing but blank gray walls and silence.</blockquote>

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