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<blockquote data-quote="Warpiglet-7" data-source="post: 8044798" data-attributes="member: 7025282">If Real life minorities were not the Heroes of the game, it would be different.&nbsp; having monsters as existential threats to all people does not necessarily mean it’s ok to describe certain groups of people as the monsters/existential threat.&nbsp; What’s more, I have seen no evidence that it encourages these beliefs irl anymore that pretend fighting makes us think of violence differently.people are united against monsters.now if we say: “but we can misapply the idea that there is an existential threat“ to include real groups of people&nbsp; we could also with equal logic say the same about justified violence.I don’t think orcs will make eugenecists out of anyone anymore than pretend violence would make us more violent.scrubbing the game for concepts with negative histories doesn’t do much other than restructure old game conventions that many people enjoy.I can hear the argument very clearly but interpret the data differently.&nbsp; And in terms of data, the only data out there suggests people that play rpgs are less likely engage in negative attributions to other people.But this has been argued to death and I will leave alone and let the light hearted joking be the focus here.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Warpiglet-7, post: 8044798, member: 7025282"] If Real life minorities were not the Heroes of the game, it would be different. having [I]monsters [/I] as existential threats to [I]all [/I]people does not necessarily mean it’s ok to describe certain groups of people as the monsters/existential threat. What’s more, I have seen no evidence that it encourages these beliefs irl anymore that pretend fighting makes us think of violence differently. people are united against monsters. now if we say: “but we can misapply the [I]idea[/I] that there is an existential threat“ to include real groups of people we could also with equal logic say the same about justified violence. I don’t think orcs will make eugenecists out of anyone anymore than pretend violence would make us more violent. scrubbing the game for concepts with negative histories doesn’t do much other than restructure old game conventions that many people enjoy. I can hear the argument very clearly but interpret the data differently. And in terms of data, the only data out there suggests people that play rpgs are [I]less likely [/I]engage in negative attributions to other people. But this has been argued to death and I will leave alone and let the light hearted joking be the focus here. [/QUOTE]

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