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<blockquote data-quote="Crazy Jerome" data-source="post: 5560115" data-attributes="member: 54877">It isn't arbitrary, but it is often based on assumptions that are not clearly stated (or even known), which is going to seem highly arbitrary to other people, and sometimes will be in practice.&nbsp;I'll say again my original point in condensed form:&nbsp; I'm fine with mechanical differences in humans by gender in a game with a lot or random character generation, if everything is more or less random:&nbsp; age, size, intelligence, social background, etc.--and the randomness is put together with some reasonable plan to accomplish a certain style.&nbsp;Said by itself, that sounds incredibly arbitrary.&nbsp; Now that we've had this discussion, agree or disagree with that position, I doubt many here would find it arbitrary.&nbsp; But go back before we had it, and just assume I made it in passing in some other context.&nbsp; It would sound arbitrary.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Crazy Jerome, post: 5560115, member: 54877"] It isn't arbitrary, but it is often based on assumptions that are not clearly stated (or even known), which is going to seem highly arbitrary to other people, and sometimes will be in practice. I'll say again my original point in condensed form: I'm fine with mechanical differences in humans by gender in a game with a lot or random character generation, if everything is more or less random: age, size, intelligence, social background, etc.--and the randomness is put together with some reasonable plan to accomplish a certain style. Said by itself, that sounds incredibly arbitrary. Now that we've had this discussion, agree or disagree with that position, I doubt many here would find it arbitrary. But go back before we had it, and just assume I made it in passing in some other context. It would [B]sound[/B] arbitrary. [/QUOTE]

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