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<blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 8933973" data-attributes="member: 8461">No, that's not what &quot;this&quot; is about. This is a debate as to whether or not associating with people who have reprehensible beliefs is a moral failing greater than working for a company which puts out products that they know will cause large-scale injury, suffering, and death. I'm saying that the latter is worse, and you're taking the opposite position.Incorrect. <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/kyle-brink-d-d-exec-producer-on-ogl-controversy-one-d-d-summary.695136/post-8933836" target="_blank">You introduced</a> the mischaracterization that my position was applicable to &quot;any corporation and most large businesses.&quot; I simply predicted how you'd then run with that digression (i.e. whataboutism), and you proved me right.But that's not what we're discussing. Even in the hypothetical instance that the premise was granted that junk food companies, oil companies, car companies, etc. were all just as guilty of harming the public as Big Tobacco, that wouldn't change that what we're discussing is whether or not that's as bad as associating with someone who holds beliefs you find vile. I hold that it's worse, and you're saying the opposite (though your <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/kyle-brink-d-d-exec-producer-on-ogl-controversy-one-d-d-summary.695136/post-8933742" target="_blank">initial post</a> on the subject implies otherwise, by way of suggesting that it's somehow less egregious if a woman does it).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Alzrius, post: 8933973, member: 8461"] No, that's not what "this" is about. [I]This [/I]is a debate as to whether or not associating with people who have reprehensible beliefs is a moral failing greater than working for a company which puts out products that they know will cause large-scale injury, suffering, and death. I'm saying that the latter is worse, and you're taking the opposite position. Incorrect. [URL='https://www.enworld.org/threads/kyle-brink-d-d-exec-producer-on-ogl-controversy-one-d-d-summary.695136/post-8933836']You introduced[/URL] the mischaracterization that my position was applicable to "any corporation and most large businesses." I simply predicted how you'd then run with that digression (i.e. whataboutism), and you proved me right. But that's not what we're discussing. Even in the hypothetical instance that the premise was granted that junk food companies, oil companies, car companies, etc. were all just as guilty of harming the public as Big Tobacco, that wouldn't change that what we're discussing is whether or not that's as bad as associating with someone who holds beliefs you find vile. I hold that it's worse, and you're saying the opposite (though your [URL='https://www.enworld.org/threads/kyle-brink-d-d-exec-producer-on-ogl-controversy-one-d-d-summary.695136/post-8933742']initial post[/URL] on the subject implies otherwise, by way of suggesting that it's somehow less egregious if a woman does it). [/QUOTE]

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