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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Argyle King" data-source="post: 9407867" data-attributes="member: 58416">I appreciate the response.I suppose, from my own point of view, I am trying to understand what is considered "culturally correct" (for a lack of better words) when there is no (subjective) shared equity between two groups and trying to be more inclusive of one causes (subjective) harm to the other. (And all of that subjectively assumes that "equity" should be priority.)From my own subjective point of view, I feel as though there comes a point at which becoming too beholden to avoiding subjective offense makes it very difficult to have a functional product.FWIW, (and also from my own subjective point of view,) I sometimes find it offensive when other people feel it is their job to decide to be offended for me.Years ago, I stopped going to rpg.net because the mods there held a particular point of view as to what the correct way of thinking for someone from my background ought to be; when I disagreed with that viewpoint, I was admonished. I found it a bit strange to have an authority figure explain to me that I was behaving and thinking in a way that they felt was not the approved way of thinking for someone of my own background.I think (or at least I hope,) in that person's own mind, they felt they were doing the right thing. My point of view was that their attempt to "do right" was arguably more offensive than people who actually did/do intend to be offensive toward me. Trying to express that -even through PMs- lead to threats of moderation and a temporary ban. Eventually, I simply decided that I would prefer to no longer be a member of that community.I understand not wanting to cause harm or anguish. Though, I'm not sure that I always understand how the choices made in pursuit of that endeavor are measured to be the correct ones. As such, I am interested in hearing other points of view.Additionally, as someone who chooses to engage with products built around groups of people acting out violent action, conflict, and fantasy warfare; it's not always easy to understand the points of view held by other members of the community.Edit: To clean up some odd bits of grammar.</blockquote>

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