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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 6388820" data-attributes="member: 2011">Ok, you suckered me back in. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/erm.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":erm:" title="Erm    :erm:" data-shortname=":erm:" />I do not equate this with a whistle blower. It really is not important enough for that. I did not bring that term into the conversation, I brought the term rabble-rouser in because that's closer to how I view it.Funny, that's your spin on what I said. I was talking about real world journalists blowing this topic up so much out of proportion that someone loses their job.Personally, someone losing their job is more important to me, and it should be to you, than your personal sensibilities being offended by fictional infant monsters. Are your offended sensibilities more important than someone else's job?No. If someone posts something on a blog and someone else loses their job over it for no real good reason (which I think that you and I can both agree, this is not important enough for someone to lose their job over), than that person was a moronic blogger.Our social media is way out of control and it's only getting worse. People do lose their jobs over the most trivial of facebook/twitter/blog reasons.Would you like it if you lost your job because of something trivial that you wrote? This is a small number of monsters where the vast majority of gamers and virtually no non-gamers would have ever noticed this. And of those gamers that do notice it, very few consider it important.Yes, you are entitled to your opinion. And no, I do not think (or at least I hope) that this will not blow up into something bigger. But when one starts questioning the moral fiber of people these days in our media, crap happens. That might not be your intent, but the two of you are approaching this as a "should publishers be publishing this type of thing?" as if it is morally wrong and not just subpar monster design. Sorry, it's not morally wrong to many people. Morality is subjective. This is fiction. It's hard to really say that fiction is morally wrong because by definition, it's not real world.You considered it an insult that I disagreed with you and thought that the thread should just die a quick death?The author controls that character, just like the co-authors (i.e. D&D players) control their PCs.Nothing forces you to have your heroic PC go fight a Firesnake.</blockquote>

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