What I am trying (and failing) to draw attention to is the (what I feel is ) excessive importance placed on issues plucked out of life and injected in a game in the context of the game.
The topics are real, no doubt about that. So they should be discussed in the context of real life with application to real life... in a non-game forum/subforum.
I can't treat the topics as they are used in the game as anything other than narrative tools, used to give the councilors and generals believable and somewhat familiar dialogue. I also have trouble understanding how some could treat them as important.
And I guess I'm being impulsive around a pet peeve of mine in the vein of not holding debates where they actually matter, and instead discharging them where they will have no real meaning.
But fine, argue on. In the context of the concerns expressed here, I just wish that games will continue to be made without concern of stepping on some toes of those who are probably not even their target audience.
