Goonhub
11-10-2016, 04:33 PM
(11-10-2016, 03:57 PM)Frank_Stein Wrote: Whoa, we're not talking about banning people for saying sperg. We're talking about removing references to it from within the game itself. I think there's a big distinction between what individual players do and what's built into the game itself. The latter creates a precedent of server approved jokes of that nature.
If someone in the future were to make an autism joke that was more offensive, having these references ingame gives them ammunition for it's permissibility. The slippery slope argument goes both ways
By removing sperg from the game, what's permissible changes, as you said. Which means that sperg may become the more offensive autism joke you mentioned since autism jokes are not permissible at all at that point.
This is like how there used to be SS uniforms on the station. But they got removed and Hitler jokes stopped being allowed.