@Ryouga001 "If I honestly believe that their morality is inherently unhealthy and physically/culturally destructive, why on earth would you find it reasonable that my children and I extend a hand of acceptance towards their behavior? Why exactly are you favoring their morality over mine?" Their morality works for them, it's as simple as that. What they do is their own problem and is not going to destroy your culture nor you way of life; I don't thing any of then is trying to enter you home and turn you into one of them like if they were zombies. And NO; I'm not favoring it's morality. (did I misspelled something?). I live in Europe (Germany), gay marriage is legal in a good number of countries, including this one which is one of the most conservative in the continent. Our way of life, traditions, culture and believes were not destroyed because of it.
@Ryouga001 "I don't need public schools or pop culture trying to co-opt my role in raising my kids by exposing them to material I don't approve of." Not sure about the term "policing it's exposure"; that is called parenting and I salute you for that, I see lot of parents that seem to have forgot about that (just a sidenote ;) ). In my case depends of the material; I would not expose my child to ultra-violent or pornographic stuff; but other things that I don't personally approve (religion or communism, to put two examples) even as a father I have no right to implant my ideas on him (not saying that you are doing it, don't get me wrong) I'll instead rise him to think for himself and make it's own choices. His choices will be his own... altough yes, it can get terrifiying sometimes lol. Anyway, for the subject we are talking about is a "M for Mature" game. "In telling me that I must accept others and their morality solely on the virtues that they're people with their OWN moralities, you are demanding that I violate mine." No, that's not the case. Both morals can co-exists without conflict, what I said is that both are valid in THIS case. I never generalized since I believe myself that not every moral is valid (those that cause death or discrimination around the world, to put a general example).
@Ryouga001 Each one's morals are it's own and are subjective. I also mean it that way; Acceptance as "person's assent to the reality of a situation" (wikipedia reference), from my point of view seems like people wants every reference to homosexuality removed from any media like they want to deny it's existence. I'm not trying con conflate anything; you are the one who misunderstood my opinion (I used the word "accept" exactly because of that). Said that I'll add: You can't tolerate something without accepting that its part of the reality. Worthiness: Merit or value (in a personal context in the case I use it)
This is ridiculous. Nothing in particular, just the whole thing. (What comes next is just for some people, don't take as something general ;) ) A few hours in Mass Effect 3 (around 8 or so) I already found a fair number of homosexual references. They are not denigrated nor glorified: they are just there, in a neutral way; homosexual exists in Mass Effect universe and guess what! no character in game seems to care. It's a message of unity in a galaxy full of completely different species, some issues here and there, of course, but unity and peace.I believe some of you failed to understand that aspect of the game. That is exactly what some of you should do; gay people are out there, like it or not, they are not going to disappear no mater how strong you wish it, how offensive it is for you or how much hate you keep for em. You are not forced to like it nor to think it's something awesome, but you have to accept that it's there. hell! it has been there for at least two millenniums. After all, what you get for keeping that irrational hate for the subject? It made you hate a exceptional game that you could have enjoyed by keeping those opinions aside. The only ones to blame for that are not Bioware's game designers; it is your incapability to accept social reality. Also, and in case you wonder, I could not care less about homosexuality in general. Whoever someone shares it's bed with says nothing about his worthiness. Have a nice day.
Nice article. I also agree with the fact that every gamer has it's right to complain and disagree; but all this people, talking loud like if they were the ultimate masters of creativity and believing themselves the most interesting persons in the planet is beginning to get old.
I also don't get the problem with homosexuality in general. Is world going to explode if there are too many?, is it gonna cause a war or something?. It does not impact in you life if you just ignore it, so I don't see any point in getting pissed because of that appart from the joy of being mad the whole day (like that, for the shake of it).
Maybe is another case of "since it's no longuer my special game and now everyone playes it, i'm gonna hate it Hipster way since I can no longuer be cool by saying I play it". You don't like something, don't buy it, but if you REALLY need to go to metacritic and pester by lowering the "user review" section... then you are really sad.
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