EVE General Discussion

I'd say EVE didn't destroy your psyche in any way, it has in fact made you a better person. There is NOTHING WRONG with carefully protecting your interests in real life, even if it borders on paranoia. That is how you avoid getting screwed over by the shady mechanic, or the con-artist "investor" or the slimy car dealer.

At least where I live, in the United States, my experience has been that people are afraid to exercise their rights as consumers, or even as employees, because they feel they will lose the deal, or face some other sort of retaliation. These things do happen, and those fears can be justified. That is why it is very important to educate yourself, not just on your rights, but what your alternatives are when someone violates those rights. If you don't do these things, all the caution and/or paranoia in the world won't protect you indefinitely.

So if EVE is teaching you to be more cautious in your dealings with people, and encouraging you to educate yourself in how to protect yourself from scams and the like, even if that doesn't immediately extend into the real world for you, these are good things.

When this change happens to you IRL, some people might look at you differently, even friends ("...Wait, you're actually going to READ the contract...?"), but really that's ok. Chances are they just don't understand, but they might one day, when they find they really should have read something before they signed and get screwed because they didn't. All you gotta tell them is "I'm just protecting everyone's interests by making sure there are no errors." Or something to that effect, and they'll probably shrug and leave you alone.