Regarding the Diablo controversy. What we have here isn't 'entitled gamers' (and when you pay for a product, you're entitled to your money's worth anyway) but a deep loss of trust and respect between gamers, media and developers.
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... as an emotion is tied to disgust (of excrement, rot, filth, bodily fluids) as a gut reaction.
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Yeah, I think this is tied deep to an aspect of human psychology that deals with enforcing morality, shaming others and such. It used to be that people with that type of moralistic tendency were in the religious right, now they're in the Intersectional left.
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Probably cuz the main source of morality at least in the Western world used to be Christianity (the Religious Right), and now it's "anti-bigotry", which has been taken over by Intersectional Feminism.
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I realise I wasn't quite clear in my earlier tweet, but I think it goes back way further than that. I think outrage is an *extremely* primitive tool of enforcing social cohesion, likely predating organised religion by thousands of years if not more.
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IMO that is why outrage is often fuelled by irrational leaps of logic, like the magical thinking involved in blaming [cultural phenomenon] for [bad thing]. It's scapegoating (and in the past this was done quite literally).
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I think outrage as a response developed so far back in the past that it is triggered by the types of cues that would've been most threatening back then: primal fears, threats to the weak of the tribe, magical phenomena and monsters.
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That's what I meant by "tied deep to an aspect of human psychology". I think this transcends religion and is probably tied to primitive gut reactions, at a level were people behave more by instinct.
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