Quote Originally Posted by Theodric View Post
I use the term genocide to describe the Sundering not only because Venat's actions fit the definition perfectly...
Refraining from that terminology doesn't make light of her actions or detract from what she did. But these are some very charged words, with links to some very real, absolutely dreadful IRL atrocities that continue to impact people today, as does the ideology behind them, and I do not like dragging them into a debate on a fantasy world where the topic at hand involves scenarios and variables that are so vastly different from anything we experience that it is a questionable fit to apply them here. Dividing them from the baggage and background they carry is not a choice that everyone agrees with, the resulting debate and emotional response it invokes obscures the actual discussion, and they are not needed to make the argument against Venat work.