People that preach tolerance sometimes have none themselves, and only use it to try to force others to tolerate their own beliefs and actions. Tolerance goes both ways, and should really be the theme all sides are trying to support.
I've seen this in a lot of arenas lately, not just video games. Sports for example. I'm a football fan, and a lot of my friends and family were football fans. We had a lot of fun watching football games together. Now, they don't want to watch sports anymore. They think they're making a political statement by not watching it because they don't like what the players are doing off the field, or before the games. Suddenly that thing that brought fun and enjoyment for us is gone, and I'm watching alone. They can't tolerate the player's expressing their personal beliefs or their support of movements or ideas. I think it's sad, that people would let the personal preferences of others ruin their own enjoyment of something they liked. I like football, and i like video games. I'm not going to let anything that a player, or a character, does or says take it away from me. I tolerate their beliefs and their right to say what they believe whether i agree with them or not, because at the end of the day, i'm still just watching football, or playing a video game, and their political or personal views have nothing to do with that.
So let's all try to be more tolerant, and expect others to be tolerant as well. Whatever side you are on of an issue, try to tolerate the other side as well. At the end of the day, this game unifies us, because we can all agree that we all love DnD, Baldur's Gate, and RPGs.
