Thread:KalKent/@comment-61371-20120911013154/@comment-61371-20120913232022

You kind of completely ignored what I said. I don't care why characters were chosen. I honestly don't care, and wouldn't argue over who did or didn't have a tumor. I also really don't care what effect it's having. That's great information for the notes or the character history. What I don't understand is why it's necessary as a separate category from cancer when MOST tumors are cancerous. Or why it even NEEDS to be categorized. Who, realistically, wants to know what characters have tumors? It's like wondering which characters have rashes. Or oddly-shaped birthmarks. Cancer, I can understand, to some degree. I think it's incredibly disturbing to reduce a real-life medical condition that afflicts millions to a simple category...but I can kind of understand it. What I don't understand is who cares about tumors. Categories are a great tool, but at a certain point...they're not necessary, and you're just categorizing things for the sake of categorizing things, and not for the sake of providing an easy reference tool. Things shouldn't be categorized because they CAN be, but because doing so serves a purpose.