(03-15-2015, 11:18 PM)ArmachiA Wrote: So... you want me to lie and say I'm okay with it because I may make someone who plays a WHM feel bad? Because I'm not. I believe in following lore, and I believe that bending lore should be realistic, to which I believe being a WHM is not (Especially when confirmed by the devs there's only one, which people just seem to be ignoring completely).
I'm OKAY with people running around being WHMs if they want, but it's absolutely my choice not to acknowledge that they are or, if they constantly remind everyone they are a WHM, ignore them completely.
I hardly think I'm being a dick about this, unless being a dick means "I disagree with that."
It's not elitist at all to want to follow lore closely. I have no idea why people throw that word around because I disagree with something. I don't think I'm better than anyone else, that's just the kind of roleplay I - and the people I rp with - like. All of us agreed to follow lore as closely as possible. It's what we enjoy. That's all.
To clarify. I am not saying that your individual opinion makes you a dick. I am saying that there are ways of stating your opinion that come off as less dickish/mean than "You are doing it wrong, you don't exist, and I refuse to interact with you because you disagree with me." Your opinion is your own. Go for it. Own it. Rock on with it. Do as you will.Â
I am simply advocating that stating your opinion in a more civil manner than absolute exclusion, or keeping a more open mind about where someone is coming from might be helpful. Particularly when trying to prevent these discussions from getting to a point where the mods have to lock them because everyone is screaming at each other, and the whole thing has devolved into everyone making/seeing everything as a personal attack.Â
I am not here to tell you how to play your character or RP in the game. No one here can. There is no right, there is no wrong. Heck, new lore can come out and everyone can be end up on the wrong end of it. Notable examples I can think of include - some of the Garleans are a race unto themselves, the Elementals were not always in the Shroud, how many Dragoons actually exist and what they look like, or some of the various cultural details of the races. There is a lot of "we don't know" out there that is not absolute, and treating someone as lesser because we treat some of that "we don't know" as absolute is probably something we should all avoid. We should try to keep an open mind as far as the "we don't knows" go.
In short, the opinion you hold does not make you a dick. How you treat/react to people because of the opinion you hold does, potentially. How we phrase things to others does, potentially. We must strive not to forget that there are other feeling, thinking humans on the other sides of our screens, and try to treat people like they are anything less than that. No matter what our opinion may be (or what we agree or disagree on) we do not have the right to treat someone poorly or act like a jerk because of it.
