By the way, here's the two main articles dealing with Varney, the second one I included because in my opinion, it shows that Varney wants to take some sort of moral high ground in what is essentially a form of escapist play time.
http://allenvarney.com/av_morality.html
http://grognardia.blogspot.com.au/20...ight-2000.html
And yes, that is yours truly being reactive to Varney's commentary/comments.
And as something of a follow up
http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?...e-amp-Morality
Why is this important? Look at the dates.
ALL these webpages are about half a decade old. Consider that Varney's original article was written in 1991 and how he believes T2k deserves blame for not having a "code of conduct" in the rules and then consider how he jumps out of nowhere 19 years later to direct people to his article.
In my opinion, he was pushing a personal agenda but his agenda has made little to no impact over the years or at least no impact that I can see.
I do believe that Ashkenazi's article will end up with the same lack of impact.