The Freelancer is E for everyone, that doesn't mean that DiscoveryGC should.

[Jihadjoe]

Aye that is correct, I urge you to dig on step deeper and ask yourself why exactly that reference is illegal, what lies behind it and what we can learn from history and adopt in our daily lives. Is the lesson that solely jew/nazi slander is bad and everything else flies?

See my edit in the post above. I believe that elsewhere in the world representations of that would be possible if artistically valid and sensitively approached, without glorifying or celebrating what was an absolutely awful thing for people to have done.

Strangely, this history blackout actually serves to draw attention to it, rather than the opposite, creating a taboo subject, rather than something which can be healthily discussed. Things become far less dangerous when discussed openly. A great many people are drawn towards that which is denied to them (even if it is denied to them with the best of intentions). Morbid fascination leads to some dangerous behaviour.

If you do not allow people to reflect upon the less than pleasent aspects of our history or behaviour as a species, how can we expect to learn from them?

You keep pulling that strawman out of the hat; it's not really true. More often than not I've got no clue what player is in front of me when I play this game because I have a habit of staying out of the skype-side of things.

I would suggest that the strawman I am using is only as grotesque as the manner in which you painted Korny's behaviour. Allow me to quote you and re-examine the post I first replied to.

It's because it's ever apparent that those who wish to RP using those words are the types that'd wish they had the cojones to act like that in real life but knowing full well they'd get served a tasty knuckle sandwich if they did. So they use the safe distance and the anonymity of the internet as their outlet instead. A pitiful display, really.

With this post, you chose to use a roundabout method of insulting the player in question. You made a series of steps which use your limited knowledge of the player's general attitude then push them to an offensive extreme using your own highly subjective opinions as a base. The favour in this instance was returned by myself. My aim was to get under your skin, in the same way yours way to get under Korny's, particularly with your final note of "A pityful display, really."

The fact you do not know Korny is not his problem. To take a negative view of something of which you are wholey ignorant is profoundly unfair.

Furthermore, it should not matter which player is infront of you, as the automatic assumption should be that the behaviour you witness is in character (unless demostrated otherwise).

That is true, and I might have come off a bit unfair. But since you stay on that topic, I find it interesting how said player even refuse to acknowledge how his words could be offensive, and that seems totally unrelated to his character.

You did come across as highly unfair. My understanding of Korny's words so far, is that he believes that it should not be offensive to another player within a fictional setting. The word in question is a mild swear at worst, used in a fictional context and not directed towards the player.

I can understand that position, even if I would advise being more careful where he directs the language in future. I would not suggest he cuts the word from the character's vocabulary, but instead that he uses it in a setting where the people can be trusted not to get their panties all bunched up over it.

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