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But claiming there's actually any meaningful difference is one of cognitive dissonance deck chair moving.

The outcome is the same, not consciously hoping for that outcome doesn't change it.

A good analogy to this is modern day slavery. Take the survey to find out how many enslaved people support your lifestyle.
https://slaveryfootprint.org/

By consuming products created by companies that use enslaved people, you are contributing to their enslavement. No amount of personal passive non desire for this to happen will change that your actions directly contribute to this.

This is another way of saying that the neutral position is not a neutral position, and only people in privilege consider it so. Not taking a stance on politics is taking a stance on supporting the status quo, pretending technology is politically agnostic means the politics already built into it will continue to apply. Actions matter and not taking them matters more in a climate of entrenched structural issues.

Inaction is a choice. One that requires very little effort, but a choice nontheless.

But claiming there's actually any meaningful difference is one of cognitive dissonance deck chair moving.

The outcome is the same, not consciously hoping for that outcome doesn't change it.

To make sure we're on the same page and not getting lost in semantics, this branch of the conversation stems from someone saying that corsairs/drukhari imply that some eldar out there probably fell in with chaos at some point.

And we know that this has happened. We have occassional fluff blurbs about chaos eldar. See the chaos eldar thread for more.

But it's also fair to say that even if drukhari behavior feeds Slaanesh, the way they go about it does matter when it comes to whether or not they'd "fall to" or "worship" slaanesh.

Drukhari and (most) corsairs pretty overtly don't "worship" Slaanesh or any of the other chaos gods in a way that most people would think of when the word "worship" is used. They also *do* live their lives in ways that very clearly feeds Slaanesh. So it seems like we're just splitting hairs over whichever definition of "worship" you want to use?

Given the gods don’t need direct worship to feed on their preferred emotions, and the closer than usual link between all Eldar and Slaanesh? It could be that Slaanesh doesn’t need to make pacts or gain direct worship from Commoragh.

Being a dense concentration of incorrigible wrong’uns, whose souls are constantly being drained by Slaanesh in a permanent smorgasbord of excess and emotion? It could be Slaanesh sees the current status quo as Good Enough. And so only exerts sufficient influence on Commoragh to keep them hopeless addicts.

Which could add a level of patheticness and sympathy to the denizens of the Dark City. We know they don’t have to live that way. Craftworlders, Exodites, Harlequins and Corsairs don’t after all. And yes they’re just repeating the sins of the past that landed them all in this boat in the first place.

But, if Slaanesh is exerting influence to keep them addicts, and so keep the good stuff coming in a constant stream? Perhaps the Dark Eldar aren’t solely to blame.

The reason that the evil of the Drukhari doesn't feed chaos has nothing to do with intention.

It's because the Drukhari eat the suffering themselves, leaving nothing for weakling gods to eat.

The Drukhari do not fear gods. The Drukhari do not want or need gods. The Drukhari know that they ARE gods.

Drukhari didn't "Invent" living off pain and suffering to protect themselves from Slaanesh. They fed off pain and suffering because they liked it; this created Slaanesh, which sucked for a lot of species and even a lot of Eldar... But the Drukhari just kept doing what they liked and it prevented Slaanesh from ever being a real threat to THEM.

Some Drukhari probably think they could teach Slaanesh a thing or two about hedonism, pain and suffering.

And at least a few of them are probably right.