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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pawsplay" data-source="post: 4658386" data-attributes="member: 15538">There are plenty of people only six generations out of slavery, so I assure you it's a topic to take seriously. Aside from the historical question, slavery is still practiced in every part of the world, including the USA. One typical situation involves allowing a young woman to pay you to help her illegally enter the US on the pretext of finding employment; then you steal her documents and force her into prostitution or domestic slavery. As for cannibalism... China experienced a famine rather recently. By some accounts, cannibalism happened fairly frequently. Several changes of regime in China have also been marked by violence, including cannibalism. Meanwhile, many places in Africa are in a state of nearly continuous warfare, which has bred warlords of the vilest character, including self-admitted cannibals. I could go on, but it's problem enough to observe that mugging, grave-robbing, the acquisition of dangerous weaponizable secrets, and religious strife are ongoing issues in the world that should, ideally, be handled with some level of respect and tact.Rape certainly does place. I don't think that its appearance in a D&D game "trivializes" it. In fact, one of the hardest things about such events is the culture of shame that surrounds it. To this day, it is easier to admit to being the victim of life-threatening violence than to rape. I think it's a good policy to simply state that if it does appear in a D&D game, it should not be trivialized. D&D is obviously not a treatise on social justice, but at the same time, I find the proposition that D&D somehow should and must be suitable for the Saturday matinee to be insulting. Have you read or watched Sin City? A guy eats somebody's arm while it's still attached. That's pretty messed up. And yet Sin City is arguable "light" entertainment. But I don't think being entertainment means something has to be entirely mindless or that it has to suspend the moral awareness of the people being entertained. It's about something.Just like Charlie Brown deals with issues of rejection and self-worth and self-actualization, D&D deals with violence and glory and evil and all that.</blockquote>

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