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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Remathilis" data-source="post: 8764160" data-attributes="member: 7635">That's really my problem with this: it's fine to present topics like slavery or genocide or fascism or religious fanaticism in a way that does not glorify or justify it, but I feel we're reaching a point where even the mention of the topic will be deemed offensive, even when in a negative light. This isn't a trigger warning, this is sanitized for your protection.Fiction (of which gaming is part) allows for exploration of topics removed from their historical context for exactly that reason. The Daleks in Doctor Who were developed to be Space Nazis bent on genocide of everything not a dalek and have killed other Daleks due to impurity. They are irredeemable, always Chaotic Evil and even the few "good ones" would hardly be called saints. They must be opposed, even to the point that the normally pacifist Doctor contemplated his own genocide of them twice at different points of his life. They are fascinating for a species and cannot be identified with on any level. They also break every rule in modern fiction: a human-like race that was mutated by a megalomaniac mad scientist "creator god" , is Always Chaotic Evil unless something messes with their programming, and is hell-bent on genocide and obsessed with racial purity and supremacy is no longer acceptable, if I'm reading the room right. Not even to show how aberrant such ideologies are, the concepts alone are unacceptable to discuss. The Evil of the Daleks reduced to a simple cartoon version of Evil for Evil's sake, without motivation or explanation. Anyway, I guess this has moved far from the topic so I'll let this drop.</blockquote>

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