Talk:Weepers/@comment-149.159.125.109-20121012163318/@comment-75.37.3.130-20130222053350

"You are well within your right to express your thoughts here. I find your large assumptions about my personal life rude and unnecessary--this is a game, isn't it? A thing we talk about for fun?--but you are free to conduct yourself however you see fit.

You may continue to have this discussion with whomever else chooses to reply. "

And I look forward to it.

The bottom line is that those "assumptions" are not assumptions. Not even close. I'm a historian and a sociologist, and I am well aware the idea of three squares, a roof, ready access to food, AND access to a luxury item (like a computer absolutely is) are very much the exception even today. To to a medieval person your average modern lifestyle-even amongst the urban poor- would be at LEAST akin to living in a rather secure fortress, with ready access (at least in theory) to entertainment, food, and a luxurious library and debating hall of your very own! I don't know the exact truth of your circumstances, but then again I do not need to.

You may find it as rude and unnecessary as you wish, but forgive me if I will stick to its' accuracy, and if I do not remotely understand why you feel this way. It's not the most controversial thing in my post by the longest of shots.

My suggestion still stands: do your homework, and especially do it on how people lived in the past when plagues like the Rat Plague were a threat to even the most "Civilized" and secure nations and societies. You cannot project your contemporary assumptions and mores onto people and expect to understand them as well as you could. Especially people who have lived with things about as horrifying as bioterrorism and/or nuclear war (which isn't that far off from the effects oif a major epidemic) on top of continuous warfare and raiding as more or less something they had to wake up to every day.

With that, I say the best of luck to you.