Don't Expect A Morality Clause In ORC

While we're waiting for the first draft of the ORC, a recurring question has been "Is it going to include a morality clause?".  

Eric Mona, publisher at Paizo, got asked this on-stream, and he had to do a little back-and-forth preamble, but the answer was "Probably not; if you have material you don't want terrible people to use, take care with how and if open that content up".

On top of this, the official ORC discord has been discussing this over and over for it's first 24 hours, and there too the rough consensus appears to be "Yeah, we mostly don't want one".

Reasons why not vary, but include:

- I don't want to police everything downsteam of me; I certainly don't want to eat some kind of trouble for not policing it.

 - I also don't trust anyone else to police use of my content, especially if that someone else might shift over time.

- Policing this would mean court time and expenses for someone, and isn't that exactly what we're trying to avoid here? 

- That's not what "Open" means, as regards open content.

- Enforcement of this would vary wildly by jurisdiction.

- It would be a chilling effect, not just on those it's aimed at, but also on people that such clauses have often been bent around to harm; they wouldn't trust it, and for very good reasons.

All of which are fairly strong arguments, and appear to be consistently winning the day thus far.   

So, yeah: Don't expect a morality clause in ORC.