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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Torm" data-source="post: 1525217" data-attributes="member: 12706">I think you misunderstand me. I'm NOT down on myself or other gamers, exactly. I know that what we do - most of us, anyway - is a lot better than what we could be doing. And there are good aspects of gaming - fellowship and social skills, history and math and so on.It's just this: For most of us, in the game, if our characters heard that there was a horrible plague, or a famine, or an oppressive government in a neighboring land (that wasn't an enemy), we would be off and charging to the rescue. And this is a certain amount of hypocrisy when we DO hear these things everyday in the real world, and we just keep on keepin' on. And I'm as guilty as anyone else. Because its HARD. And I don't have Holy Smite. Would that stop my Paladin? No, but it stops me. And that's bad.And I said "bad", not "evil". It's not evil - evil is the scumsuckers who set things up like this in the first place. The ones who don't fight the good fight even though they HAVE the power. The ones who make us forget that if we all got up and did something, we WOULD have the power.I game, and it makes me happy. And I don't feel bad for gaming. I feel bad for giving up the good fight. Gaming just happens to be one of the things I do since I surrendered. And I don't think I'm alone. Why is it that it's mostly those of us who are smart enough to understand what's going on in the world around us who are drawn to RPGs? A desire to escape to somewhere where we can win the good fight, at least until we have to go home again?I probably would've remained quiet on this subject if I had seen more balance in the responses, but everyone is usually so eager to defend what they're doing that they DON'T provide balance. And there is the slightest kernel of truth to the point the Fundies make (that a lot of them probably don't understand, themselves), which is that anything that doesn't serve good serves evil in a way. It's cliche, but true - all evil needs to win is for good people to stand by and do nothing.</blockquote>

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