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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 6388185" data-attributes="member: 2011">Because killing monsters is fun in the game.Old monsters, middle aged ones, babies. Why does age of monsters matter? This is like saying monster gender matters because men should not hit women. Male, female, or androgynous monsters, who cares?This is a game. Fiction. Nobody actually gets hurt.Saying that creating baby monsters in the game is immoral in our society is the same as saying the game itself is immoral. You are humanizing these fictional creatures.The real question you should be asking yourself is why you are letting this bother you. What is it about your moral framework such that you find it distasteful for the very existence of fictional baby monsters (assuming that the reason for your POV is that you do find it distasteful and are not just playing devils advocate here)? To me, this POV is not much different than religious people from 30 years ago who thought that playing D&D was worshiping the Devil because D&D had fictional demons and devils in it. Both views seem a bit intolerant based on some moral line that was crossed.You try to put a negative moral connotation on the game designers by even questioning their motivations to create such a fictional monster. Why?It's a game.This infant issue only exists because people like yourself are bringing it up (you did mention it first in this thread).You and D&D girl seem to think this is a relevant and real issue. Most everyone else is looking at you like you grew a third eye on your foreheads.This is not controversial.Today, games are filled with all types of violence. That doesn't make the killing of fictional infant creatures immoral, it only makes it immoral to some small segment of the population. Morality is subjective.If your definition of controversial is that a few people think this way, hence, this topic is controversial, then yes, this topic is controversial. I see it as a non-issue (although a fun one to banter about).</blockquote>

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