@Calico45 Of course I can't predict the way people will react to things as posted (and generally I'm shooting from the hip when I comment about the game in general—the only posts I make with refinement and editing put into them are my stories-from-the-game posts, for obvious reasons.
It wasn't until I saw the way the thread was going that I was like "wait a minute, it's important that I clarify here, because..."
There are plenty of flaws in the relation system, of course, and making family trees that would make the Hapsburgs of Austria cringe is shockingly easy. In general, by the time my family trees grow so long that the branches start to look like weeping willows, that's when I know it's time to age off the older generations—I say "age off" because at least they deserve the dignity of one last storyline, so I have them add one more kid to the generation below and just let them age while the kid ages into an adult.
And like I said, part of this is just me being bothered by EA/Maxis getting all high and mighty about avoiding offending people when they make one set of game changes while out the other side of their mouth making all kinds of absolute depravity possible. I tend to agree with Trey Parker (of South Park fame) who said "as soon as we decide one thing is off limits, we're pretty much saying we condone everything else we've done."
