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Originally Posted by Hitch
You guys still aren't looking at the bigger picture, as I said. WHERE DOES IT STOP???? Who decides, what bits get changed?
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Oh I'm looking, alright. The idea of this sort of thing frankly scares the <substitute "clean" word for fecal matter here> out of me. I see it as the slipperiest of slopes that will continue downward until TV/DV[D|R] remotes come with sexual-orientation, gender/race-substitution and political-slant buttons; and where "
just fill out this short questionnaire on your phone before entering the theatre so we can present the movie in a way that aligns with your world-view" becomes common-place if uncontested. Fig-leaf goggles for museum tours. Movie-makers and authors who only create story frameworks for demographic algorithms to later fill in with the "appropriate" words/scenes. Dogs and cats living together—mass hysteria! That there are people out there who believe that books are nothing more than a collection of tropes, and situations, and characters that can be just as effectively conveyed with any-old words baffles me.
Baffles me.
But those are just opinions. I can't offer any concrete evidence that that's where stuff like this will lead, so I typically avoid discussing it (for the most part) online. That and I knew that authors/publishers would raise a bigger stink about this than I ever could.
And no ... none of those fears were sarcastic (except for the Ghostbusters reference
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