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Message: <blockquote data-quote="PsyzhranV2" data-source="post: 8317790" data-attributes="member: 7015332">This may surprise you, but moral realism is still actually quite popular, both in academia and in everyday life.Not everybody believes this. Many people do believe that there is an objective standard of morality.No it doesn't.This is very specific to Christianity.Yes.No. The lasting consequences of our ancestors' actions are ours' to rectify and atone for, but the moral weight of their sins rests on them alone. Also you're bringing up sin a lot, just letting you know. It's honestly really creepy.If you say blatantly racist and sexist garbage, even if it was long in the past, you're apologize for that. Preferably before you're publicly found out and taken to task, both so you can make amends on your own terms and to show that you genuinely regret saying what you did and are making an effort to change. If you die before making that change for the better, well that's a permanent stain on your record. Religious platitudes need not be factored into it.It's far from being enough, but it's better than nothing.Yes, that's bad. Corporations suck. Workers of the world, you have nothing to lose but your chains, debout, les damnés de la terre, blah blah blah, I'm up for that. But that isn't what's going on in this specific instance. Everybody who has been calling out TSR(3) on their bull has been doing so in their capacity as individual persons, not as representatives of other companies except where necessary to prevent confusion, like TSR(2) did.Because the people "calling for more reasoned debate" are going to bat for a person who does not deserve that courtesy. Either they're totally oblivious, or they're intentionally sealioning.You may see that. Stripped of all context, somebody who's completely clueless may come to that conclusion at a first glance. But the devil is always in the details. Looking more closely, you may see that what is happening is that a yet another out-of-touch white cishet man made some offensive remarks about race and gender, and his company's social media is doubling down rather than disavowing his statements or otherwise controlling the damage. The people calling TSR(3) out are the minorities that Ernie Gygax disparaged in his interview, along with their allies and other parties interested in keeping out regressive and bigoted attitudes from the tabletop roleplaying hobby.</blockquote>

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