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<blockquote data-quote="codo" data-source="post: 8856014" data-attributes="member: 94626">I understand the impulse to want a nice clean, compartmentalized world. Where everything fits neatly into the compartments of good guy or bad guy.&nbsp; A world where you never need to make any difficult moral decisions.&nbsp; A world where you are free to loot and murder your way across the world without ever having to question the morality of what you are doing.&nbsp; One of the main reasons I can&nbsp; understand the desire for that kind of game is that I am a middle class, straight, middle aged white guy.&nbsp; I also understand the incredible amount of privilege in that position.The game world I described is almost a textbook definition of Colonialism.&nbsp; What seems like a fun, mindless adventure when you are on the top rung of society looks a bit different from the bottom.&nbsp; People from a culture where they have a long history or foreigners coming to loot and murder there way across your county, might see it as a bit more than harmless fun.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="codo, post: 8856014, member: 94626"] I understand the impulse to want a nice clean, compartmentalized world. Where everything fits neatly into the compartments of good guy or bad guy. A world where you never need to make any difficult moral decisions. A world where you are free to loot and murder your way across the world without ever having to question the morality of what you are doing. One of the main reasons I can understand the desire for that kind of game is that I am a middle class, straight, middle aged white guy. I also understand the incredible amount of privilege in that position. The game world I described is almost a textbook definition of Colonialism. What seems like a fun, mindless adventure when you are on the top rung of society looks a bit different from the bottom. People from a culture where they have a long history or foreigners coming to loot and murder there way across your county, might see it as a bit more than harmless fun. [/QUOTE]

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