Parts of the game I'm also not especially fond of in the way that they're handled, coincidentally, and I've said as much before. And after talking about these topics with other players who have been affected by the history behind these references and who struggle with the way these depictions have been utilised in the game, it's a point of view I very much stand by.
Oh, yes, petrified. Not at all finding it embarrassing to think it's a worthwhile argument to be so adamant in forcing other people to use a word they refrain from out of respect for other people including those victims, in relation to Final Fantasy, than just respecting someone else's decision to do so.The word, genocide, that you are afraid to use was created by one of those victims, and your fear to use it to identify an act that fits its definition is far from tasteful.
...and as such is still commonly associated with the hideous crime it was created to help prosecute, keeping such comparisons a foregone conclusion.Genocide is not a word that was made for one specific people. It was made to hold those who perpetrated it accountable under international law. Go read up on it.
And there it is. How did I predict several posts ago that this is what it inevitably boils down to? The very idea of being conscious of someone else's response when it comes to a potentially difficult topic seems to provoke a reaction that brings to mind dousing the Witch from Oz in water in some people. But I'll continue to "namby pansy" my way around other people's feelings regardless of your strange desire to control that, and you feel free to use whatever terminology you see fit for your own purposes.You will never be free from it, no matter how much you try to namby pansy around it.
I'd have to see it actually being used to vouch for correct grammatical usage, but it's somewhat tricky when very, very few people including the most maniacal villains would actually opt for such an outcome, lol. In fact, I struggle thinking of anyone outside of a JRPG setting who would... it's not really a trope over here. Or perhaps it is, I don't actually read sci-fi.



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