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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 8265545"><p>Intent is incredibly important. And everyone deserves the benefit of the doubt, especially if we are being critical of their work. I am not saying you have to love everything under the sun (lord knows I have been critical of many of the design choices for new Ravenloft), but you do need to try to figure out what someone was actually trying to say with something, and to understand something in its context as well. What you are losing is the ability to discern between something like a racist diatribe and a trope that could be viewed different ways by different people. Some things are always going to be bad, no matter the intent. Some things are going to be very dependent on the intention behind them. And some things will fall into a gray area. But this constant self flagellation and flagellation of anyone who dares to make something, is really getting tiring. You are not a good person just because you can announce to the world you found bad tropes in something. If you want to be a good person, go out into the world and treat people nice and with kindness. More often than not, I see people taking these kinds of arguments to be cruel to people online. Many of the posts in these threads by posters like yourself have been filled with venom and snark. At this point it just seems like a lot of people are using this as an excuse for their own desire to bully and be cruel</p></blockquote><p></p>