[quote=@Stern Algorithm]
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What you stated defines 'jumping to conclusions'. Also, the humans in the world still live in tribes, so human law is at its infancy, and hasn't developed into anything even remotely totalitarian. Based on his actions, all he's done is try to negotiate rather than dominate. So I'm giving people the opportunity to chat and get to know him. I just feel that given what information is currently available in the game, this degree of aversion is unwarranted. The reason I brought up metagaming it because it can be perceived as if player bias and player knowledge is influencing character behavior.
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That's what I was aiming to describe, because though I did forget to think about how humans are in their infancy, people jumping to conclusions is still likely, though maybe not in the way I described. I also didn't intend to imply that anything totalitarian had or was likely to form, just pulling from something earlier to try and support my point. Also you make a good point there, and I will apologize for having jumped to conclusions myself, though my intent was just to help facilitate communication of the issue and have it more cleanly defined.