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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Darkness" data-source="post: 427437" data-attributes="member: 13">Kibo, my apologies if I wasn't clear enough in my previous post as to why we should be very careful with contemporary (by which I primarily mean WW2 and later, FYI) topics in this thread.The main reason is that I want to prevent a flame-war - which it is awfully easy to get into with such topics. See, from the fictional "machine-gunning of teenagers," it's just one further step - and all of a sudden, we're discussing Columbine. And if somebody comments on the relative bravery of modern-day battle tactics (like Mal's rhetorical question about the US army), things can get out of hand real quick unless one is very careful (not to say that you and Mal weren't careful <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />).So let's just (continue to) be careful (whether we're speaking about Alexander the Great or Ho Chi Minh) and try to use less recent examples whenever possible, and we should be okay.(My other, less important, reason is that IMO medieval and earlier examples are just more relevant to D&D. *shrug* YMMV.)Anyway: You made some interesting points in your latest posts, Kibo, and I'm beginning to understand better where you are coming from. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I'll be certain to comment on them later; it's 4:45 AM around here, and I have some work to do first (oh, and wake up completely). <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Chrisling, I certainly don't believe that it should be "restricted" to one gender.Further, at least one other poster (AngelTears) mentioned, "[Rape] was also used during the middle-ages as a way of passing out sentence (not dependent on sex either)."</blockquote>

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