You do realize that had explicitly said I wasn’t referring to what you had been posting?
Yes, but you are also imposing a requirement on me to police the argument:
I was merely pointing out that complaining about the effect is pointless if you ignore the root cause.
The root cause is the bad faith straw man attack that’s leveled against substantially all claims that the Night Elves should be allowed to hit back, as I explained previously.
I mean, there was talk of how Tryande didn’t kill innocent Horde civilians and about how that would have been an evil act. When that if followed by fervent denials that Horde civilians shouldn’t be considered innocent, the response is predictable.
And no, I’m not talking about your posts. Claims I am mischaracterizing them are, in fact, a straw man.
I’m not familiar with this conversation. The closest thing I can remember were claims that - strictly for game balance reasons - the Night Elves should commit some atrocities in order to provide the Horde with a moral justification for acting on the defense. But it wasn’t Night Elf fans who reacted to that suggestion in the way that you described. Horde fans were doing that in order to lay out why they feel that nothing would ever make them feel justified.
Perhaps this is a different incident, but if that’s the case, I’m not recalling the episode you’re concerned about.