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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 9874553" data-attributes="member: 177">Depends what you mean by "equal", now doesn't it?Like, there are ways you and I are going to be different, right? Some of those will be fundamental, some will be upbringing and personal history. We are not exactly equal in all ways.But we are fundamentally still basically the same kind of critter.If Jeb the Baker could have turned out like Conan, if their situations were reversed, then Jeb and Conan are still the same basic critter. Doesn't mean Conan won't mop the floor with Jeb in a fight.Always beware when you lay about with absolutes. It probably contains hyperbolic overstatement of reality.Like, some of those NPCs are a lot like the PCs. Sure, many are not. But there are far more Jeb life paths than Conan ones.That is a completely different argument. Especially because Middle Earth is explicitly not a place where all people are the same. Aragoen is not just another human. Neither is Boromir.</blockquote>