...are you seriously going for the "media is turning our kids gay" angle?

The plural of "anecdote" is not "data".

I'm not trying to be rude, but that's a pretty absurd straw man you're railing against, there.

Well, sure. I'm certain there are many women who simply don't care, just as there are members of every group who feel the same way.

If you are creating an artistic product, you are inviting feedback and, yes, criticism. That is part of the package. If you want to create art and NOT have it criticized, don't release it for public consumption. It's that simple.

I'm also involved in LGBT advocacy, and I think you're grossly oversimplifying the diversity of approaches and attitudes found in the LGBT advocacy sphere as well as the causes for the social and political shifts we've seen over the past decade.

"You are probably right about that, but then again, so what? They just work on what their market research says, which is completely reasonable from a company that aims to make money."

Sure it is. Again, though, I don't see why that means other people should feel obligated not to criticize it. "Because they want to make…

"So, you believe that nothing but the chains of despotism can keep mankind from destroying and devouring one another?"

No, but then, I also don't buy the argument that all laws are necessarily "the chains of despotism".

"I'll cop to being callous, but I'm realistic. I embrace Objective Reality - the world as it actually…

You'll excuse me if I don't respond point by point to every single part of that.

"You just keep going further down the rabbit hole and diverting, instead of engaging. "

Is that what you call it? I call it "addressing every single one of your points".

"You confuse Government and Society, like all Socialists. And that's…

"It's not based on faith. It's based on logic and reason."

And yet, little evidence exists to support the argument.

"We do not, by the way, live in a Capitalist society, we do not, in fact, have a Free Market. We haven't by some estimations for over 150 years, and others would tell you that we never have - at least not…

I'm not entirely clear on what parts are responses to what. What was the back-handed insult? Which part is why the concept is flawed?

(Also, I've never argued for "make laws to fix everything". At the same time, I think this whole "leave it up to the free market and things will work themselves out" thing is...pretty…

You still haven't answered my question about those "better, easier ways". I'm starting to think they might not exist.

"Putting pressure on developers to do something that may not fit their creative vision, yes, that's a bad thing. It stiffles creativity and the art they are making."

Sorry, but that's nonsense. They're big boys and girls. They can choose to take feedback or stick to their "vision". And in the game industry, 9 times out…

You seem to be either projecting things I never said on to me or misreading what I did say. Where did I claim that the catalyst plot was introduced in the last five minutes? I said it was introduced "in the third act of the trilogy", which is still pretty piss poor. The ending of a trilogy should be a culmination of…

None of which answers my question: if these "better, easier ways" exist, what are they?

Okay, what the hell...

...so you're calling non-discrimination laws "tyranny"?

You're right, we're not going to agree on anything, and there's probably not anything more to discuss.

"I think it's distasteful when people make laws that can forcibly compel me to do things, as a means of solving a problem."

Like...what, exactly? I'm trying to figure out what laws specifically you're taking issue with here. Non-discrimination laws in employment and housing?

I mean, most of what you say sounds perfectly…

"But I know we're not likely to agree there. "

Probably not. Certainly, those arguments don't have a great track record historically (cf. segregation, civil rights, et cetera). I also think it's a -little- distasteful when people outside of a minority group try to tell members of that group how they should deal with…

"I have friends of all political strains, we just don't agree on politics. I have atheist, christian, pagan friends, hell, I know people from just about every religion."

That's fair, but there are -certain- political opinions that don't really allow for civil "agree to disagree" attitudes. Among those are things like…