EVE General Discussion

Children will always try their best to be cute.

Then how do you decide what is offensive?

Monkeys don't start wars or [insert other undesirable things]. So why would we want to be less like them? Also, monkeys don't play characters with 'offensive' names in MMORPGs, so how does reporting offensive names make us less like them?

On the whole your post just doesn't make much sense.

You don't. Society does. Next.............


EDIT: It's quite similar to the current battle of the Nudists in San Francisco (all 25 of them against 825,000 who don't participate) who claim being absolutely nude absolutely anywhere at anytime is Free Speech to 'express their beliefs'.

Society and the Judge decided that no, it demonstrates no viewpoint and expresses nothing at all.

....more like when they leave the parent's basement, neckbeard and all.

Yes we do

I expect better from Trolls, but whatever.

That is not what was stated at all.

But actually, historically it is quite true. Where have you been ? Mars ?

morally you are quite right but what gives you the right to restrict other peoples language in an open space? it also attributes to an adult not to be offended by simplistics such as words and to stand above aggression... and if what you say is true then someone missbehaving towards you is a very usefull tool to you because it shows you who that person is and can be a used against them or help you make choices when selecting your friends.

although i do agree when one makes a comment and the next 20 comments are either inferior and driven by rage or riddled with insults, scrolling through the forums to find valid arguments does become quite a task.

as a general question: what do people get from trolling on internet forums? i feel it is a completely ridiculous thing to do as it adds nothing to discussions what soever and doesnt bring them further one bit.
one must be very immature and bored to want to do something so meaningless so much.
Also the EVE forums are infested with trolls... which i deem quite sad because many very valid comments are dismissed and lost in a sea of trolling keeping the level of discussion at a very low one.

exactly. in the right society it works this way.
wrong ones (like Europe these days) will lose all culture and be replaced by some other culture/society.


well. what do you think about racism? Is it bad or good? Common opinion in USA 50-60 years ago was "racism is normal". These days racism called bad. What changed?

Another example: 100 years ago it was normal for "civilized european countries" to have slavery in Asian/Indian colonies. Last colony was freed 50 or some years ago (with big war resulted in huge casualties). Would it be officially normal these days? I hope it wouldn't. What changed?

Some things is very hard to understand and describe. Personally i don't feel myself able (language adds to this a lot). To really get it you need to look wider, pay attention to details and connect points. Try to find answer to "why racism is bad?" for yourself and you will see - questions like this are not as easy as anyone would want.

racism is bad because it is a lie. it generalizes cultures to a whole and denies the fact that most people are individuals and judge for them selves every situation anew. to say all europeans are dumb just because you met a couple of (in your opinion) dumb ones would be a very very false thing to say.

so if you are racist, you are stupid.

I wish people *wouldn't* report offensive names.

I have found myself in chat channels with people that I really found distasteful on many levels (and anyone who's ever been on my corp TS would know that I'm not the sort to be shocked easily). If their corps/alliances/characters had names to match the opinions of those players I would have had some advanced warning of what to expect, so I would have at least avoided disappointment.