Most of the time what we are doing in video games is fighting, fighting the "bad guys" but who the bad guys are is all a matter of perspective. I think the conflict between the Alliance and Horde is a good example of this. Both sides have done some messed up stuff in the name of their faction but their goal is to protector their people, and all is fair in love and war, right? The more I learn about the story the more I actually see the Horde as the bad guys (especially the undead, the lack of ethics with the undead is real) seeing as they invaded but I still fight for the Horde, the Horde is still my home and that means standing up for them right?
I really like these groups that are unaffected by the faction differences, like the Argent Crusade in the Western Plaguelands they don't seem to care about fighting for the Alliance or Horde all they care about is healing the land they live in, and that is beautiful. So often we get stuck in this Us vs Them mentality that we forget, that we should all be working together. Now I won't lie that isn't always easy, especially when there are those blood thirty, and willing to kill, but killing back not the only way. What I've learned is that education has a lot to do with these type of things, and that educating someone when they are the wrong path can help them be put on the right one (I think that most people would agree that going out and murdering people is the wrong path). I'm on a PvP server and when I was writing the blog that the picture went to I died 3 times at the hands of the same mage, it was very annoying, but I didn't go on a killing spree of finding all of the Alliance here and getting them. I could have even switched to my max lvl pally and just one shot them all over the place, but I didn't and I choose not to even when people are hunting me or killing me like that because I'm not a very vengeful person. It would be different if we were in an area like Nagrand or Hellfire where there are areas to fight over, so you know if you're over there that you will be fighting (I usually leave people alone anyways, which is kind of weird since I'm a big PvPer in other games but if they are just doing PvE I don't want to bother them). I like the idea of shifting the thinking away from being an US vs Them because it is important, we are all humanoids over here, and there are much bigger threats that we should be fighting, and I like that a lot of the WoW expansions point to that. We have to work together in most of the recent ones because the threats are so much larger than our petty squabbles. I don't believe you can change everyone because there are some people so full of darkness that they just don't even want to change but I do think you can change a lot of people. There were studies done showed that IQ and bigotry have links (along with certain critical thinking skills or lack there of pointing to an increased likelihood of certain types of bigotry) and it was interesting because that means people can learn to be better and that is something truly beautiful. I like to think of the groups in WoW that are resisting this faction war as those people who have learned to be better. It is a metaphor to me for the ability to really critically think about what is the true problem going on here? And how do we fix it? You have to take care of where we live (like the Argent Crusade is trying to do in the Western Plaguelands) or no one will be able to live there at all, and then what? All the fighting that the Alliance and Horde have done will be for nothing if everyone dies. Now that the original Warcraft story is coming to a close I think it would be cool if WoW added a third faction, one that was the Alliance and Horde working together, you could fight for everyone instead of just the Alliance or Horde (like how the pandas are before picking). I think that it would be pretty cool to choose a neutral faction at a higher level and be able to go to both Stormwind and Undercity ect... They could just be the Factionless, the true heroes here to fight against those who want to destroy Azeroth. One of the places that the studies were talked about https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/were-only-human/is-racism-just-a-form-of-stupidity.html#.WTasKty1uM8 there are multiple different articles about this (elsewhere) though.
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