The problem with hogwarts legacy is not just "a difference of opinion" due to the author, it's because jk rowling is actively giving her harry potter money to anti trans hate groups, to anti lgbtq+ groups, to anti abortion groups and to groups that are pushing for conversion "therapy"
You cannot buy licensed harry potter products without giving jk rowling money. Any money that jk rowling receives will most likely be used to fund some form of bigotry and this will hurt a lot of people.
Buying hogwarts legacy means accepting this fact and deciding that it's OK. And people are allowed to be upset by this.
she engages in stochastic terrorism on twitter too. someone stole my picture, made a fake "im going to kill all cis women" twitter account, and then she tweeted it out. i woke up to a shitload of notifications from friends telling me to hide so i privated my twitter and was offline for a week. thankfully another swer uses a dmca service and he submitted a claim to them and they got the pic taken down after a week but that was still a week of lost work for me. she just did that in 30 seconds, is still a billionaire, and i probably wasn't the only trans woman she targeted that day and i was lucky to just get away with a week of lost promotion and working on twitter (a quarter of my monthly income).
buying hogwarts legacy plays into keeping her relevant which is where she gets her power from. don't just not buy it, stop engaging with harry potter as media. it literally has a real material cost for transfems all over the world and everyone has to make the decision for themself if it's worth that just to play a video game or go to a theme park or watch a movie
How much money goes to anti-trans-hate-groups per copy of the game purchased? Like, how *much* of a real material cost is it?
Like I’d get it if all £50 of the game purchase went straight to killalltransgenders.org, but, like, if it’s fraction of a penny? However much it is, it has to weigh up against how much people want to enjoy doing a thing they want to do - which it might do, but there’s some real weight to outweigh there.
you didn't read my post like at all besides the part where it said real material cost
what you just wrote was insane by the way, you're saying that a little bit of genocide is okay as long as the people greasing the gears of the machine are having fun in a quantity that outweighs the suffering of the people being targeted
saying the quiet part out loud here. "how much until i have to care?"
You also do things that contribute a small amount to a large negative thing happening. If you live near a coal power plant, turning on a light contributes (a very tiny amount) to pollution and massive numbers of deaths. If you work for money and get taxed, some of that money is used to fund police, some of whom will engage in unjustifiable cruelty. Everyone has a "how much until I have to care" level. Don't shame people for being more honest about it than you are.
I'm not saying that people should buy the game. I sure won't be buying it. I'm saying that it's not evil to do a cost-benefit analysis rather than recoiling in mindless horror. Anyone who wants you to stop thinking isn't your friend.
heavily flawed argument. utilitarianism failure achieved.
for the first example, if your power is received through coal or oil, it directly contributes in some small part to climate change. the difference, which should be pretty obvious really, is that you use electricity to do things such as "cook food" and "not freeze to death". hogwart's legacy is a video's game, a totally optional thing you, ostensibly, use for fun, which is also easily subverted. you have thousands of alternatives, ranging from small budget / pricepoint indies to other AAA blockbusters
second point, taxes contributing directly to unjustifiable actions - political corruption, police brutality, the prison industry. the differences are 1. you have to pay taxes. like, legally. it is a crime not to. 2. your taxes also go towards good things. funding public libraries, schools, public transportation, community outreach programs. you aren't just paying a percent of your paycheck every month to directly support state-sponsored murder. conversely, when you buy hogwarts legacy, you are directly, knowingly, and exclusively funnelling money to the public face of an international hate campaign. it is not some abstract side effect - it is her legal right as an IP holder. a substantial percentage of your money will, inevitably, directly support the political structures that have led to the increase in violent crime and legislation against transgender people.
finally, the "it's not evil to do a cost-benefit analysis" thing is a crock of shit. i mean honestly, really, proof-read what you write and try to think about how it comes across. do you genuinely think there's a point where it becomes OK to give money to hate groups as long as you give more money to the "good guys" as well? it's the level of moral aptitude of the average superhero film, and the exact logical issue with performing cost-benefit analysis in a moral context - you can't achieve moral neutrality (let alone moral good) while knowingly supporting bad causes if you just donate to enough trans charities or whatever. raytheon is still evil despite hiring gay people.
overall, there is no comparison to your (mandatory) taxes going towards police funding or your (required to survive) electricity usage coming from fossil fuels or your (required to live in a house) rent payments supporting landlords or any other false equivacacy. the simple truth is that people want to play an (optional) video game that will have a significant portion of its profits extracted to fund hate campaigns, and they don't want to feel bad about it because their enjoyment of the new shiny toy painted to look like a book they read when they were 9 outweighs how much they care about minorities.
so yeah. you aren't engaging in utilitarianism, you aren't playing spore, you're not going to get an economic starting city by balancing the nests you kill with the nests you befriend. you are trying to treat the concept of moral good like a spreadsheet. you aren't some evil villain of the week just for buying a shitty game - all you are is a run of the mill twat. get over yourself.
