Please remove Shark Fin Soup

[Tiggy]

It's a video game. Not the real world. Our world does not effect Eorzea and Eorzeans having similar struggles as a real world make it more realistic. Taking this out just to be politically correct with the Earth's problems would be a massive over reach. We still read stories all the time about settings in the old America's with slavery. It's not cool to own slaves any more but should we go back and edit those books so it isn't present? No. That's part of the setting and part of a history worth remembering. It is deliberately a time and place that doesn't exist in the real world anymore just like Eorzea is a time and place that doesn't exist in the real world. In Eorzea overpopulation and over fishing aren't a problem. Don't mess with the setting due to some misguided political correctness that only has relevance on Earth. Shark Fin soup and the killing of sharks is part of our history. Ignoring the reality of it's existence in other forms of media does nothing but make you feel better at the end of the day. It doesn't erase our history, it doesn't repopulate our oceans with sharks, and it won't stop people from killing sharks. Eorzea isn't some pristine land with no problems and nothing but happiness and Unicorns. If over fishing of sharks will become a Eorzean problem then so be it. Don't create a problem with this game just because of the conditions on Earth.

Also, have you gone fishing in Eorzea? There are so many sharks it's unreal. Bathing suits are obtained by desynthing them to get at the clothes left in their bellies from the person they ate. Eorzea could stand to lose some sharks.