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<blockquote data-quote="TheSword" data-source="post: 8239266" data-attributes="member: 6879661">Whether something is offensive or not, is exactly what taste is about. Let’s be clear, talking about what WOC publishes, or what happens in a game store or convention is easy. Those are public affairs... what happens at someone’s kitchen table isn’t so easy.There are many comedians that push boundaries along taste and decency. If you go to a three comedian billed comedy club with a MC in any given city in England, I guarantee at least one of them will tell a joke that you wouldn’t repeat. There are many jokes that I would find distasteful. Then again I recognize that I shouldn’t be the person who decides if they get told or not.The problem with the average man on the clapham omnibus being the person who decides what is acceptable taste or not is that if that were the case Queer as Folk wouldn’t have been scheduled on TV in the mid 90’s and Graham Norton wouldn’t have been allowed to present a major TV show then. Because the average man on the bus in the 90’s thought open homosexuality was distasteful.These things work both ways.I’m not saying there aren’t things that I would horrified to see presented in a game. I just don’t think deciding what they are is as simple as some people on here suggest. The price of free speech, is that you sometimes have to put up with some things you don’t like.At that point we’re back to consent, and choosing who you play with.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TheSword, post: 8239266, member: 6879661"] Whether something is offensive or not, is exactly what taste is about. Let’s be clear, talking about what WOC publishes, or what happens in a game store or convention is easy. Those are public affairs... what happens at someone’s kitchen table isn’t so easy. There are many comedians that push boundaries along taste and decency. If you go to a three comedian billed comedy club with a MC in any given city in England, I guarantee at least one of them will tell a joke that you wouldn’t repeat. There are many jokes that I would find distasteful. Then again I recognize that I shouldn’t be the person who decides if they get told or not. The problem with the average man on the clapham omnibus being the person who decides what is acceptable taste or not is that if that were the case Queer as Folk wouldn’t have been scheduled on TV in the mid 90’s and Graham Norton wouldn’t have been allowed to present a major TV show then. Because the average man on the bus in the 90’s thought open homosexuality was distasteful. These things work both ways. I’m not saying there aren’t things that I would horrified to see presented in a game. I just don’t think deciding what they are is as simple as some people on here suggest. The price of free speech, is that you sometimes have to put up with some things you don’t like. At that point we’re back to consent, and choosing who you play with. [/QUOTE]

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