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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 721038" data-attributes="member: 177">Nobody did.&nbsp; But then, nobody said that football fans in general were violent and that the passtime of watching sports was fundamentall wrong, either.&nbsp; And, if we apply the same logic to football that's being applied to larps, that should be the conclusion.&nbsp; My point being not that football is evil, but that the logic is absurd.Yeah, I hear that sort of thing a lot.&nbsp; IME, it rarely means what the speaker thinks it means, and in such cases, it misleads the reader.You see, I too have an opinion formed from years (about a decade) of observation, participation, and first hand experience, and it says exactly the opposite.&nbsp;&nbsp; The fact is, there are very few people around that have wide enough experience with larpers (meaning that they've met enough of them, spread widely enough over gaming style and geographic location) to say what &quot;most&quot; of them are like.&nbsp; Fewer still have enough experience with them outside of the game they play to talk about what their personality is like in general.&nbsp; You're talking about a group (&quot;larpers&quot;) that is both ill defined and large - quite probably in the tens of thousands.&nbsp; Are you really so confident in your sampling that you are willing to label thousands of people you've never met as &quot;socially inept freaks&quot;?Stereotypes are like salt and fats.&nbsp; They should only be used sparingly.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 721038, member: 177"] Nobody did. But then, nobody said that football fans in general were violent and that the passtime of watching sports was fundamentall wrong, either. And, if we apply the same logic to football that's being applied to larps, that should be the conclusion. My point being not that football is evil, but that the logic is absurd. Yeah, I hear that sort of thing a lot. IME, it rarely means what the speaker thinks it means, and in such cases, it misleads the reader. You see, I too have an opinion formed from years (about a decade) of observation, participation, and first hand experience, and it says exactly the opposite. The fact is, there are very few people around that have wide enough experience with larpers (meaning that they've met enough of them, spread widely enough over gaming style and geographic location) to say what "most" of them are like. Fewer still have enough experience with them [i]outside of the game they play[/i] to talk about what their personality is like in general. You're talking about a group ("larpers") that is both ill defined and large - quite probably in the tens of thousands. Are you really so confident in your sampling that you are willing to label thousands of people you've never met as "socially inept freaks"? Stereotypes are like salt and fats. They should only be used sparingly. [/QUOTE]

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