RP players of Balmung

[VeyaAkemi]

Look, I get wanting to defend people's right to enjoy themselves, but if empathy is the argument, then it should go both ways. Dismissing people who disagree as "prudish maggots" isn't exactly empathetic—it’s just shutting down opinions you don't like. There's a difference between criticism and persecution, and acting like every disagreement is some kind of moral attack kind of defeats the whole point. If you want respect for your views, you’ve got to give it back, too.

I got a bit too aggressive there, perhaps, but I feel the point stands, it is a sentiment born out disgust, it is judgmental, and it is trying to shut down others, it is an (admittedly much lower stakes) version of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance, a concept where to be tolerant, you need to be intolerant to those who are intolerant, to simplify it to a small fault, essentially, the guy who swings first is in the wrong, and you cannot allow too much empathy to those who display lack of empathy, lest you will allow their behavior to flourish, that's where I am coming from with that attitude.

[Alice_Rivers]

I got a bit too aggressive there, perhaps, but I feel the point stands, it is a sentiment born out disgust, it is judgmental, and it is trying to shut down others, it is an (admittedly much lower stakes) version of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance, a concept where to be tolerant, you need to be intolerant to those who are intolerant, to simplify it to a small fault, essentially, the guy who swings first is in the wrong, and you cannot allow too much empathy to those who display lack of empathy, lest you will allow their behavior to flourish, that's where I am coming from with that attitude.

There are things that should not be tolerated, like sex in the street, what people do in the privacy of their own homes (or those of other consenting adults) is their own business but when they do it in the public square that's everybody's business and everybody has a right to object to it.