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Quote from: fixable on October 31, 2020, 04:00:43 AM
“Those proposing games like RaHoWa and Myfarog have points of view that can cause active harm to others.”

harm /härm/ noun: physical injury, especially that which is deliberately inflicted.

Bullshit. No one has ever been hurt by a roleplaying game (unless someone threw a 1st edition Warhammer RPG book at them... they were heavy enough to maim you). Ever. Someone might have been offended, or angered, or embarrassed, or annoyed. But those are emotions. Only the most spoiled, narcissistic, never-matured man-children would even dream of asserting that mental discomfort is the same as physical injury. Your mental comfort is not anyone else's problem, nor is your mental discomfort "harm."

Ideas cannot "harm" anyone by definition. Ideas can be evil, reprehensible, immoral, offensive, and disgusting (like fascism or Marxism/communism). They cannot cause harm. Only the direct physical actions of people can. And unless you can come up with examples of an RPG book that literally says "find a tranny in your neighborhood and beat them up," you can't even justify a claim of RPGs encouraging or promoting harm.

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