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<blockquote data-quote="Crimson Longinus" data-source="post: 9223774" data-attributes="member: 7025508">No, not particularly. But several people used &quot;but the rules say...&quot; as an argument, so then we must be mindful of what the rules actually say.Personally I don't think morality is a subject the rules need to say anything about, nor I consider what they currently say on the subject valuable or meaningful. I get that. But it also is just a cultural norm, and thus I find irksome that it is deemed somehow objectively evil rather than just impolite in our culture. I have no issue with most cultures in the fictional world having similar attitudes on the subject. And customs are far less universal than many seem to think. There have been cultures that have displayed dead people, there are cultures that have eaten them. And of course all this is just real world humans, in a fictional world where we have literal aliens which presumably would have even more divergent opinions on the subject. There was recently a similarish discussion in some thread where people thought the lizardfolk to be evil because they practiced cannibalism. And I also get that this is not subject everyone wants to in their game, and thus should be approached carefully. But same goes with so many other things. Mind control that overcomes one's consent, violence to solve issues, consorting with demons and much more. So highlighting this one particular thing as especially problematic just seems inconsistent.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Crimson Longinus, post: 9223774, member: 7025508"] No, not particularly. But several people used "but the rules say..." as an argument, so then we must be mindful of what the rules actually say. Personally I don't think morality is a subject the rules need to say anything about, nor I consider what they currently say on the subject valuable or meaningful. I get that. But it also is just a cultural norm, and thus I find irksome that it is deemed somehow objectively evil rather than just impolite in our culture. I have no issue with most cultures in the fictional world having similar attitudes on the subject. And customs are far less universal than many seem to think. There have been cultures that have displayed dead people, there are cultures that have eaten them. And of course all this is just real world humans, in a fictional world where we have literal aliens which presumably would have even more divergent opinions on the subject. There was recently a similarish discussion in some thread where people thought the lizardfolk to be evil because they practiced cannibalism. And I also get that this is not subject everyone wants to in their game, and thus should be approached carefully. But same goes with so many other things. Mind control that overcomes one's consent, violence to solve issues, consorting with demons and much more. So highlighting this one particular thing as especially problematic just seems inconsistent. [/QUOTE]

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