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<blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 8465830" data-attributes="member: 6779196">Oh come on, let’s not start with accusations of virtue signaling. We don’t know the OP’s motivations and speculating about them doesn’t add anything of value to the conversation.If “one” did so, “one” would be making an argument predicated on the totally unfounded assumption that someone who is critical of ableist portrayals of characters in RPGs would also uncritically scold anyone who ever used the word “stupid” regardless of the context. Which would be a pretty terrible and easily dismissed argument to make. Good thing “one” is only making it hypothetically, or “one” might have made “one’s” self look quite silly.I will grant that, in conversations like this, people tend to be too flippant with their use of words like “harm.” No, I don’t think playing a distasteful stereotype in the privacy of your own home with like-minded people who all agree they’re ok with distasteful stereotypes harms anyone. I do think that it’s good for the hobby to encourage a culture that does not tolerate distasteful stereotypes, so that people who for some reason want to play them have to do so in the privacy of their own homes, with other like-minded people, where they won’t be harming anyone.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Charlaquin, post: 8465830, member: 6779196"] Oh come on, let’s not start with accusations of virtue signaling. We don’t know the OP’s motivations and speculating about them doesn’t add anything of value to the conversation. If “one” did so, “one” would be making an argument predicated on the totally unfounded assumption that someone who is critical of ableist portrayals of characters in RPGs would also uncritically scold anyone who ever used the word “stupid” regardless of the context. Which would be a pretty terrible and easily dismissed argument to make. Good thing “one” is only making it hypothetically, or “one” might have made “one’s” self look quite silly. I will grant that, in conversations like this, people tend to be too flippant with their use of words like “harm.” No, I don’t think playing a distasteful stereotype in the privacy of your own home with like-minded people who all agree they’re ok with distasteful stereotypes harms anyone. I do think that it’s good for the hobby to encourage a culture that does not tolerate distasteful stereotypes, so that people who for some reason want to play them have to do so in the privacy of their own homes, with other like-minded people, where they won’t be harming anyone. [/QUOTE]

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