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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jfdlsjfd" data-source="post: 8847210" data-attributes="member: 42856"><p>Honestly, hating another species isn't problematic in our world. We have no qualms not giving them the same rights as our species, and being from different species afford different rights (any animal can afford some modicum of protection against cruelty, but it might be sanctionned more to torture a domestic animal owned by a human and in no case killing one is as bad as killing a human -- and nobody will bat an eye if you're trying to make several species extinct, smallpox, while global extinction will certainly bring concern... mostly because of how it affects Homo sapiens. We also have no problem having other species being property, not people). Sure, it's because the last time our species met another intelligent species, said species soon became extinct (bye-bye Denisovans, bye-bye Neanderthals...) so we didn't have to deal with affording rights to other intelligent species, but at least with calling elves and gnomes and humans "races" implied a common people, it was implied by the connotations of the real-world use that everyone of them was equal and making distinction between them morally faulty. Depending on your game world, the local people could use bigot if they are more socially advanced than our world and grant equal rights to every living being (maybe requiring them an intelligence test? But it is extremely ableist.. or they'd have closed list of species afforded civil rights, which will make first contact awkward...), but it's probably just being called elfhater and might not have the same connotation as racist.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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