(07-22-2012, 12:53 PM)Shad Wrote: (07-17-2012, 12:12 AM)larry marak Wrote: Keep in mind that it is a crime to manufacture or sell anything in Germany with a swastika logo and using that on Avalanche products would hurt potential European sales. West End games with repeatedly guilty of this marketing mistake.
You are, of course, only reporting the facts so please don't take this post as criticism directed at you...
Perhaps it's my age, but I find this policy completely idiotic. I have a German coworker here in China who feels the same way. Of course, East Asia is replete with swastikas thanks to Buddhist art. People here look at you like you have green skin and antennae if you tell them Germany utterly forbids this symbol.
Hate will always find new representation. Banning the symbol solves nothing. 
You last statement is true, but your first statement is the one with more impact. Given time, people become more tolerant to symbols of evil times. The concept swazitka was not invented by the Nazis, but it was perverted by them for there own needs. People who lived through the regime, with this as a symbol, have a experience that is tied to it and will not want to see it at all. With time being 3-4 generations removed and the generation that lived through this dying off tolerance for these symbols is occurring. Right or Wrong about banning it is going to depend on your perspective of the world.
