by shiva666

Whymme wrote:

Lately (for the last ten years or such) I've had troubles with orcs, goblins and the like. Because they portray a world in which some races are inherently evil, and inherently worth less than other races.

My example makes it not about race or species but diet. They eat you. they can be goblins orcs ogres oni... they eat you is pretty bad for you. The creatures aren't bad, but that action of eating you, that is outside of moral discussions.

by leroy43

Whymme wrote:

Lately (for the last ten years or such) I've had troubles with orcs, goblins and the like. Because they portray a world in which some races are inherently evil, and inherently worth less than other races. There's such a thin line between believing that a fantasy race is evil, not equal to humans, and thus its members can be killed without compunction, and the beliefs of some people in the real world.

Becuase it says so in the Monsters Manual (Existential Comics is so sharp)

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by Whymme

Lately (for the last ten years or such) I've had troubles with orcs, goblins and the like. Because they portray a world in which some races are inherently evil, and inherently worth less than other races. There's such a thin line between believing that a fantasy race is evil, not equal to humans, and thus its members can be killed without compunction, and the beliefs of some people in the real world.

That isn't only an imagined danger. Here in the Netherlands, we have what is euphemistically called 'guest workers' - people from mainly countries like Turkey and Morocco, who moved to this country some fifty, sixty years ago, when we needed extra labour. They settled here, raised families, are part of our society. However, there is a racist sub stream in our society who thinks of those people as inferior. A friend of mine once told me of such a group playing RPGs, and they 'jokingly' renamed orcs as 'turks'. And slaughtered those NPCs with the same eagerness as other people would slay orcs in their fantasy game.

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