Source: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2...tory-stellaris-mod-that-made-all-humans-white
And are potentially planning on doing the same to the 'Separate Human Phenotypes' mod also available on the Steam Workshop (get it while you can, laddies and ladies)
Personally I feel that this decision is somewhat strange and the reason given ("we do NOT however wish to enable discriminatory practices.") is not motivated at all, I think people would appreciate if a Paradox employee would provide a better explanation as to how mods altering human phenotypes "enable discriminatory practices", a statement which at the moment has no argument behind it.
It strikes me as uncomparably odd that Paradox feels that a mod like this enables discriminatory practices but at the same time allow me, the player, to enslave and commit genocide without even requiring a mod, using systems developed by Paradox themselves! Yet these things don't enable discriminatory practices? I haven't seen a single word, written or otherwise, from Paradox regarding what parts of Stellaris the consumer should consider to be political statements.
Without requiring a mod I can right now create a human empire and deliberately enslave or genocide populations of a specific phenotype, does this mean that you (Paradox) enable discriminatory practices? And if not... why?
EDIT: In the immortal words of Gaius Valerius Catullus (84 B.C - 54 B.C), written in his infamous invective Carmen 16:
"For it is proper for a devoted poet to be moral himself, it is in no way necessary of his poems."
I've always wanted to use that quote for something and I think it's quite apt in this case.
And are potentially planning on doing the same to the 'Separate Human Phenotypes' mod also available on the Steam Workshop (get it while you can, laddies and ladies)
Personally I feel that this decision is somewhat strange and the reason given ("we do NOT however wish to enable discriminatory practices.") is not motivated at all, I think people would appreciate if a Paradox employee would provide a better explanation as to how mods altering human phenotypes "enable discriminatory practices", a statement which at the moment has no argument behind it.
It strikes me as uncomparably odd that Paradox feels that a mod like this enables discriminatory practices but at the same time allow me, the player, to enslave and commit genocide without even requiring a mod, using systems developed by Paradox themselves! Yet these things don't enable discriminatory practices? I haven't seen a single word, written or otherwise, from Paradox regarding what parts of Stellaris the consumer should consider to be political statements.
Without requiring a mod I can right now create a human empire and deliberately enslave or genocide populations of a specific phenotype, does this mean that you (Paradox) enable discriminatory practices? And if not... why?
EDIT: In the immortal words of Gaius Valerius Catullus (84 B.C - 54 B.C), written in his infamous invective Carmen 16:
"For it is proper for a devoted poet to be moral himself, it is in no way necessary of his poems."
I've always wanted to use that quote for something and I think it's quite apt in this case.
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