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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ulorian - Agent of Chaos" data-source="post: 9245195" data-attributes="member: 16668">I was in the middle of a large scale 'work thing' so didn't give a proper response to this. I'm sure this topic is out of the zeitgeist at this point, but my last response didn't match the effort that was put into the post it responded to (or 'to which it responded' for those who care about grammar in internet posts).That's cool. Yes. I don't know what happened exactly, clearly. I just picked one of the possibilities. But that's beside the point. One of the positions I was taking earlier in this thread was that before one takes a stand, particularly a strong stand, one should make an attempt to understand what it is one is railing against. When something happens in the world that is alarming to you, it's super easy to demonise the 'opposition'. It's easy because what the opposition has done is scary to you, or otherwise hits you in the feels. You have a primal reaction. That's human nature.The problem with that easy path primal reaction is that it doesn't generally lead to good solutions.So, as hard as it is, it behooves you (the general you), as a person, and benefits society at large, to separate the primal reaction to a problem from actually understanding and dealing with the problem.Part of that separation is to not assume evil in your 'opponent'. The person or people who have made the decision you are in disagreement with are human beings. Some human beings are altruistic. Most are not horrible, but when push comes to shove, will look out for themselves. Very, very few are truly evil. The problem with a lot of these types of discussions is that those in disagreement immediately default to 'those who disagreed with me are the devil incarnate'. That's the easy path, and helps no one. Maybe you get a few echo chamber type likes, but what greater good have you achieved?I know you know this, but I'm making my point clear for other potential readers of this post.That's true. I personally don't think it was a process failure (I've mentioned that several times in this thread).Absolutely. I don't know if that was the case. It probably was. If it was, I have no idea who the participants were. All I know about is 'Hasbro' and how 'Hasbro' responded.</blockquote>

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