What's the point with that quite lackluster story in Endwalker?

[Swordsman]

I've been sort of tracking the conversation for the past few pages and I'll weigh in on it. I don't think merely using the word "genocide" in regards to an event in a video game is insensitive.

If a specific IRL event was referenced and had a comparison made to it like: "oh yeah, the Sundering was the Ancients' version of the Holocaust," then I would say that's inappropriate and going too far. But to just say the Sundering was genocide doesn't seem distasteful to me.

Just my 2 cents.

[Lunaxia]

If a specific IRL event was referenced and had a comparison made to it like: "oh yeah, the Sundering was the Ancients' version of the Holocaust," then I would say that's inappropriate and going too far. But to just say the Sundering was genocide doesn't seem distasteful to me.

Just my 2 cents.

The thing is, though, is that by throwing around words like genocide, eugenics, extermination, racial cleansing, and so on, that's arguably what you are doing - you're just taking a step back from actually referring to the events where these things similarly occurred in tandem, and share the common feature of being associated with, by name. I'll even allow it's being done unwittingly or without that intention, but to other people it's a very clear inference to make that you are seemingly bringing to the table, and that's what I'm wary of and what I personally object to, because like you, I find it inappropriate, and others do too. This is what I mean when I talk about keeping other people's points of view in mind, and encourage taking a minute to think about what you may be implying with what you're saying, and what it may suggest to other people.

[Swordsman]

The thing is, though, is that by throwing around words like genocide, eugenics, extermination, racial cleansing, and so on, that's arguably what you are doing - you're just taking a step back from actually referring to the events where these things similarly occurred in tandem, and share the common feature of being associated with, by name.

You may feel that way, but I and several others don't. This is an argument born from emotion and feelings, and I don't think there's any definitively right or wrong answer here.

[Lunaxia]

You may feel that way, but I and several others don't. This is an argument born from emotion and feelings, and I don't think there's any definitively right or wrong answer here.

I wasn't the one insisting otherwise, or commanding somebody to use a term they're not comfortable with. I was merely explaining my personal preferences on the matter and how the argument may present to to other people. What you do with that is entirely up to you.

[Swordsman]

I wasn't the one insisting otherwise, or commanding somebody to use a term they're not comfortable with.

Nobody said you did. Thanks for sharing your opinion otherwise.