I appreciate you taking the time to discuss and for staying on topic. Unfortunately, some people rather address an imaginary caricature when they read certain phrasing rather than the actual content of a post. I would've just thrown up my hands by now.
This cuts both ways though, and such is one of my chief complaints of that group (oh no I'm participating in it now!
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It's this simplistic binary view of the world, and I fear you're almost falling into that trap here.
I try to cultivate a certain voice with my writing. If that voice caused you a knee-jerk reaction (e.g. SJW? REEEEEEE!), I think that says more about you than it does me.
That's not even remotely close to what I'm doing. I'm trying to point out how context matters, something you seem to conveniently forget or ignore when it's not conducive to the point you're trying to argue. The game is a complex mural of ethical dilemmas and choices, and someone running around going 'they're all just whores' as a blanket pejorative statement needs to be called out on their bullshit. Ditto when others ignore coercion and pretend like someone's trust isn't being violated.
By simplistic binary view; I mean you have a similiar kneejerk reaction to people disagreeing or reacting negatively to your tone. Unfortunately for that view, I don't fit that stereotype at all, without getting too political, I'm no friend of the rightwing-nutjobs or trumpers or all that stuff, I tend to be fairly moderate in politics and agree with dems on some things and repubs on others.
One of the reasons I've enjoyed these back and forths on this game over the past few thread pages is the variety of viewpoints expressed. Saying something like "someone needs to be called out on their bullshit" attempts to strengthen a "us vs them" coalition. It's an incubation of the worst parts of reddit and twitter. Do I agree with lubering back there? No, I didn't, and I expressed as much - but he had different views from antoniomontana who had different views from you who had different views from me, so on and so forth. That's what a healthy forum looks like (as long as everyone's polite).
I also had to fire up the game again just to double check that my recollection of the events wasn't off
Indeed, I've had to do the same, which perhaps means we've all wandered away from the story as it was written into a land of personal agendas, I know I have.
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You can read, interpret, and discuss the text however you like. The fun thing I've learned from seeing our project discuss over the past three years is that people have wildly different and valid takes on the scenario. Sure, I have my own reading of the morality and culpability the characters share in the story, but authorial intent is bullshit. It's not my place to comment on that.
What you quoted is only me thinking it's pretty crappy to reduce someone's take down to a Boogeyman of generalizations and personal attacks just because of sensitivity over certain commonly used phrases and ideas.
I enthusiastically liked everything about your response here and wholeheartedly agree, except for the last sentence, which risks betraying the uplifting yet neutral observer voice.
