>>419504
>That's literally not what happened, though.
It literally is, unless you want to unironically argue that not paying a drug dealer to fuck their mentally handicapped sister is a fringe ideology somehow. If you don't understand how reframing a reasonable argument as the absolute endpoint of a position on a topic is an incredibly disingenuous representation of Horseshoe Theory, I can't help you.
>Why would the girl be killed?
A. To make the other endpoint appropriately as hyperbolic as the first one.
B. The mentally handicapped girl, depending on the severity of her handicap, could be considered a net negative for society from a utilitarian perspective, albeit not to the degree of the drug dealer, whose existence directly harms the livelihoods of others. Fortunately, this position is more or less theoretical, as no one outside of a politically irrelevant fringe of sociopaths would actually hold such a position.
To circle things back around to the whole KCD2 thing, do the topics I mentioned earlier clash with the game's established lore and settings? Yes
Aside from maybe the gay Henry thing. As far as I'm aware, the only proof that Henry was canonically straight was a comment from what was apparently a community manager several years ago. I haven't seen any subsequent dev interviews to further confirm that. As such, I'm going with it being a soft retcon until further evidence comes out, as there was never any direct confirmation from back then that he wasn't straight Should this be pointed out and criticized, in terms of both the execution and handling of the fallout? Absolutely. However, I'm still hard-pressed to believe that these inclusions were specifically meant to shift the game's audience towards a more progressive one, by virtue of them not being known to the general public until the leaks. Plus, the game, as far as I've seen, at least still has some modicum of respect for the social norms of the time.
I'm also not convinced that there isn't a fringe, small as it may be, of people who are using valid criticism of the game to deflect from not wanting any semblance of progressive garbage in any game, regardless of whether or not they're appropriate for the context of the game itself.
>>419506
>"Centrism" doesn't exist. The point of the horseshoe theory concept is to mock the hoax of one-dimensional politics.
Political convictions, as a whole, are certainly multifaceted, and there's seldom a person who takes a middle ground on every single issue there is. But pretending that there isn't a middle ground between two unreasonable extremes on a multitude of singular issues is flat-out incorrect.