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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cadence" data-source="post: 8034847" data-attributes="member: 6701124">I know what changes you've said you're fine with in the published game, so please don't take this as being aimed at you [USER=6801845]@Oofta[/USER]  or your choices in your home campaign. I'm just brain dumping, and your post gave me a good thing to respond to.Should Kevin in "The Survivors" episode of ST:TNG have bothered feeling bad <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Survivors_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Survivors_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation</a>  and if so, about what action or inaction?We've been bingeing Hogan's Heroes lately.  For a kill the Nazi game, is there a difference if they're Gestapo or Wehrmacht? For the Wehermacht, if they're in combat or not?  If they're following the Geneva convention (mostly) or not for prisoners?  If some are actively trying to arrange a coup or defect? Is taking them out strategically without a thought when arranging an ambush or destruction of a munitions factory or secret base different than just murdering all of the guards at 13 in their sleep?  Why stop at just a munitions plant with civilian workers inside and not treat it all like Dresden? Are all the German's bad?  What if the German press had reported as early as 1933 what was going on at Dachau but most of the public didn't do anything, does that change it?  What if everyone had known and many were complicit, many became desensitized?  What if many would have helped in the resistance like in Hogan's Heroes if they were given the opportunity?  What if many would have turned in the young diarist in the attic?  Were those fighting on the same side... but under Stalin awful too?  Were those among the good guys who burned crosses in the yards of their African American now colleagues before the war, and would do so again after, better?When you trace the orc raiding party that you justly killed back to the village that's now mostly women and children is it different than Wounded Knee if the MM says Evil in a stat box? Does it matter if that's absolute in the B/X sense or wishy washy like the other versions with their "usually" and "can be a PC" disclaimers? If the orcs are all evil and you had a wish spell to wipe them all out, would you be bad to do so? Is it ok to wipe out Bears and Hippos and Elephants and Lions and Wolves and Rattle Snakes if they're encroaching on your expanding farm or ranch land and your only interactions with them are violently instigated by them?What's lost if the kill on sight when they're not bothering you right now bad guys are skeletons or demons or far-realm-servitors or alien-movie-aliens instead of storm troopers or nazi's or orcs?Seems like the evidence about movies and games about just mowing things down doesn't make people do it more in the real world.  Is there any evidence if whether having to think about it in the movies and games makes people less likely to just mow people down in the real world?</blockquote>

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