Vault101 said:
they are not idiots
no one is an idiot for looking at something and going "you know what? I can't abide this shit"
I don't have any interest in playing GTA V because its apparent that there's little appeal, I don't like how the game treats women (which I'm not just basing on player action)
its immature to get all pissy because people take moral issue with the things you like
"Idiot" or "idiotic" are perhaps the wrong words- ones I personally try to isolate to persons or behavior that appears to be lacking in intelligence, particularly behavior that seems self-sabotaging or counter-indicated by the stated goals of the person performing that behavior.
However,
There is a clear difference between suggesting that an individual has a right to find something objectionable (of course) and not to buy it (ditto) and acting upon the presumption that because
they find it objectionable, no one
else should be able to buy it.
I don't find that idiotic, but I do find it rather despicable, and not less so because it's strewn with a wrapper of moral outrage.
It's
always strewn with a wrapper of moral outrage. "Howl" or "Are you there God? It's Me, Margaret." Jazz or heavy metal. Comics or gangster movies.
I do not approve of people who feel it's their duty to make how people express themselves, imagine, contemplate or play in private conform to their standards, short of a clear, genuine, and unmistakable conclusion that the way they do so is hurting themselves or others. And though there are plenty of vague handwaving arguments that "of course" "common sense" demands that we see such a link (in horror comics, jazz music, slasher movies, etc. etc.) there is rarely any suggestion that such demands didn't come to the fight with that narrative well in advance of anything resembling evidence.