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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 8288202" data-attributes="member: 7006">Wrong analogy.  Replace 'avocado' with 'peanuts'.People don't want peanuts as a default in a lot of place that offer food... because peanuts are know to cause harm to a certain segment of the population with horrendously bad allergies.  And it's not enough to just say to those people "Well, don't eat them!", because the people who are using peanuts oftentimes aren't paying attention to how the peanuts are being used and the chance of them accidentally causing unnecessary harm is there.  Even if unintended.Alignment is the same way.  It has been shown time and time again that the negative attributes given to the game's traditional "default orc" aligns eerily to many of the attributes given to certain actual human races and peoples to cause harm-- and alignment highlights one of them.  Now whether or not that is intended to be the case doesn't matter-- if some people are feeling genuine hurt due to people just not thinking about it, treating orcs like second-class citizens and seeing the parallels between them and actual races in society... sometimes you do indeed need to say "Why don't we just remove them from our menu altogether so there's there's less chance of an accident here, hmm?"That doesn't mean someone can't continue to eat peanuts or use the traditional "default orc" they always have in their own personal life and game... but it also doesn't mean the person cooking the meal or making the game can't be cognizant of the potential injury and just choose to go another way.</blockquote>

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