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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 9724077" data-attributes="member: 4937">I'm not.  There is even literary precedence.  Edgar Rice Burroughs in the Barsoom series wants to have a race that is obviously evil and can be slaughtered at will so he encodes them as a blond Aryan racial supremacists who are hypocritical religious fanatics.  In the stories they are utterly unredeemable and unlike any other race on Mars, including the more alien and inhuman ones, resists all attempts by the protagonist to reach out across racial lines and build friendships and unlike any other Martian race produces no examples of a paragon virtuous member with inherent honor and goodness.Absolutely if you did that in a setting you'd have people gleefully slaughtering the Aryan encoded baddies without question, and indeed arguably we've got some 80 years or so of media supporting the notion that baddies look like that.For that matter, if you really wanted to hit humanity where it really lives, you could encode a whole race of "Brainy Smurfs" as your ultimate bad guys - big headed, overly smart, intellectual, arrogant, autistics who want to dangerously subvert the large healthy warriors right to breed and lead.  And while we nerds might feel like that hit a bit close to home once decoded, I think that encoding as nerd as evil would totally work with most people.  In fact I could probably draw real world parallels if I wanted to, but honestly I get so sick and tired of having to deal with real world politics in the context of my games.</blockquote>

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