It's shocking that the parent post can say what it does without realizing the irony of it.
Blood libel is the accusation that Christian boys were murdered by the Jews and their blood gathered for use in religious rituals.
Apply the same fallacious logic to the Jews with respect to blood libel that the parent post applies to accusations against this video game. By the same logic, in order to support the Jews, one must support murdering Christian boys so their blood can be used in religious rituals.
"No, blood libel was just lies told by a group who wanted to make everyone hate something" -- funny that.
There's a story from around 600 BCE, written by a slave and storyteller who lived in ancient Greece. It speaks of a shepherd who repeatedly fools villagers into thinking there's a wolf attacking the towns flock. In the story, the villagers get wise to it and eventually the boy and his flock is attacked by wolves, and nobody comes to help because they've learned to ignore the liar. Depending on the version, either the flock is eaten, or the boy is eaten with them.
For the past decade we've heard "Wolf! Wolf! Wolf!" At every juncture, and people are getting tired of it. There's no wolf, just an immature child who doesn't realize the danger in raising false alarms constantly because they don't get their way. Eventually there may be a wolf, and by then nobody will come.
Blood libel is the accusation that Christian boys were murdered by the Jews and their blood gathered for use in religious rituals.
Apply the same fallacious logic to the Jews with respect to blood libel that the parent post applies to accusations against this video game. By the same logic, in order to support the Jews, one must support murdering Christian boys so their blood can be used in religious rituals.
"No, blood libel was just lies told by a group who wanted to make everyone hate something" -- funny that.
There's a story from around 600 BCE, written by a slave and storyteller who lived in ancient Greece. It speaks of a shepherd who repeatedly fools villagers into thinking there's a wolf attacking the towns flock. In the story, the villagers get wise to it and eventually the boy and his flock is attacked by wolves, and nobody comes to help because they've learned to ignore the liar. Depending on the version, either the flock is eaten, or the boy is eaten with them.
For the past decade we've heard "Wolf! Wolf! Wolf!" At every juncture, and people are getting tired of it. There's no wolf, just an immature child who doesn't realize the danger in raising false alarms constantly because they don't get their way. Eventually there may be a wolf, and by then nobody will come.
I was hoping to be misinterpreting it that way, but I read it a few times and it seemed to say what I hoped it didn't.
I would be happy to be wrong.
I would be happy to be wrong.
The media has chosen a specific video game for their current two minutes of hate. The fact that you alluded to it and we caught on doesn't mean anything other than we both have working news sources.
Rather than defend the game, I attacked your argument, because it was a really poor argument. You can't just take attacks from someone's political enemies at face value when deciding what to support or not.
That is pretty internally consistent for me. The first chapter in The Graysonian Ethic after the preface was titled "Question everything and everybody—especially me" -- before I even talk about the basics I talk about it, and that chapter warns about many ways things you agree with might turn out to be wrong through logical fallacies or cognitive biases or active malice by bad actors.
Rather than defend the game, I attacked your argument, because it was a really poor argument. You can't just take attacks from someone's political enemies at face value when deciding what to support or not.
That is pretty internally consistent for me. The first chapter in The Graysonian Ethic after the preface was titled "Question everything and everybody—especially me" -- before I even talk about the basics I talk about it, and that chapter warns about many ways things you agree with might turn out to be wrong through logical fallacies or cognitive biases or active malice by bad actors.
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