Out of Pod Experience

Parents of Eve Online, if you have raging issues, please seek help before Dust release for the safety of your children. Internet spaceship is serious business. You can rage, but don't hurt someone, especially one of your own :-(

Well, as much as free speech and denial through violence is a big issue, you are correct in many ways.

The truth of the matter is that being able to completely flame someone 7 ways to Sunday without fear of reprisal has created a new breed of people to deal with.

The worst part is that the laws in much of the western world have become so nellied up that if you did kick the ass of someone who deserved it, you are screwed for life.

Back in my day, if you mouthed off and riled someone up to puching your lights out, the cops would ask witnesses, and usually there would not be any arrests because that sort of behavior should be expected to get you punched.

Now how many of these kids will grow up to be the sort of person who would wreck someones life for the enjoyment - lacking any financial gain - and then ninny about it if they got attacked?

So the "system" will ensure the safety of these people to ensure there are always people like that, because it needs a dysfunctional society to keep bewildered and preoccupied.


Back in the days of yor, the way it was explained to me, was that if a stranger was about you can tell them to get lost, but that was rare. People did not do things simply because they could. If you rode up to a stranger and treated him like scum for being on your land, you could be opening a can of worms. While everybody had guns and more rights to use them, there was a careful application of "just because you can, does not mean you should".
(So of course we need brats for a society so there can be laws for every little thing now).

I recall cases of houndsmen dealing with landowners who shoot their dogs. A clearly marked hunting dog, with a radio, lost, crossing land to get home, gets shot. In each case it turns out that the dog didn't threaten any livestock, and the location was found out usually by the lame attempts of said land owners to bury the radio tracking collars. (duh!).

In almost every case, the landowner was that "city moved to the country" type who spent his whole life being a specialist in "lawfare" - one of those careers where every day it's paperwork and red tape and doing anything you can get away with and cover your butt for, and doing to others anything they failed to counter with their red tape and paperwork - lawyers, ex cops, politicians, military officers - all the types where everything is law this and procedure that to hide behind and get away with being complete scum. So they kill something because they are blackened little souls who looked at the dog, knew the law, but killed it anyway because they could.

In the several cases I know of from my tracking connections, they were lucky the houndsmen accept dog loss as the norm (especially with wild boar) because other hunters I know would have decided to test their long-distance skills on the a-holes.

Only one houndsman I know made sure to spread a false reputation of himself as the sort of person who would skin alive anyone who hurt his dogs, and he never lost a dog to a prick landowner.

THAT is the other side of the equation - if there was consequence for being an asshat, there would not be any asshats.


Edit: the freaking article is funny too.

My father used to beat me up pretty badly whenever i was rude and rebelious.

Then the next day he would be full of regret and woult take me to McDonalds.


I grew up fine, i tell you.

Teaching children is the same as teaching anything or anyone else. You need a combination of negative and positive reinforcement. Part of raising a child is smacking them the first time they try and put a fork in a powerpoint, so they never ever try to do it again until they are old enough to fully understand why you took such action.

Choking someone is a step too far, and negative reinforcement doesn't have to be only physical violence. But if there is one thing I would expect a parent to drill into their children, it would be good sportsmanship.

The comments got a laugh out of me but it was great to see the J&SB ending again too in the editor's note

Well who wouldn't want to kill a 13 year old that is crying GAY, ******, gaylord, biatch every 3 seconds at you.

Murder you say?

But how can you kill that which has no life?

And THAT, my friend, is why it should be legal to beat the living **** out of asshats without fear of repercussions.

It'd be quite simple, actually. Local, state, and even federal governments could enforce new laws stating that if your behavior resembles that which is on this list of asshat behavior, then you deserve the beating you get and no charges can or will be filed against the person you targeted with your asshat-edness.

An adult tracking down a kid and battering him for insulting him is just sad on so many levels. Trust me I believe one should be held accountable for their words, but violence is rarely justified.

In other news another child is abused by adults.


Slade