EVE General Discussion

Strong can mean more than just physically strong. I'm sure you've met someone who you would call a 'weak' person, and you weren't suggesting you could lift more than him.

The psychology term that applies here is "dysinhibition". Dysinhibition comes about from some organic and pyschiatric reasons:
- Methamphjetamine usage
- Manic state (psych diagnosis = Bipolar Disorder)
- certain forms of temporal lobe siezures

It also comes about when one is spearated from their normal cultural restrictions and/or are disconnected from normal face to face human interactions. Internet interactions and/or being inside an MMO disguised as your avatar, typically with the excuse of roleplay, are great examples. Skype improves on this somewhat due to the ability to read facial expressions and other body language.

There is an old saying that goes soemthing like, "It's what you do when nobody is looking that defines your character." See above.

Conflict and war can be social drivers, it's true. But real social development happens under peaceful circumstance. You have to beat the survival equation before you can devote resource to higher level things like music, art, and space travel, and play. I mean, nobody will kick back and compose a symphony if sharpening your axe before the next wave of Celts invades is your top priority.

So EvE is really an example of "sanctioned dysinhibition", mainly because it's all fake with only momentary emotions at stake. American football is very similar. You can deliver career ending punishment in-game. But if you did that same stuff out-of-game, you'd be in prison.

Don't even get me started on the male adolescents compensating for an inferiority complex in Null sec...

When people talk about human nature, they're speaking of universal commonalities not varying personalities .

Perhaps you should wait until you get into some advanced coursework on the subject before you get too carried away.

I think in RL there's a pull towards collective effort and justice. We all generally want to live with some sort of safety, and we care about our children.

In EvE, we don't care if we die, and if we had children in eve I'd just as soon use mine as a guidance system on my torpedoes.

EvE is the world if it were populated with immortal, homocidal sociopaths. I don't think it's a good analog to RL ;p

I have a theory the human race tricked all the most violent and sociopathic to travel through the EVE gate, and have enjoyed centuries of peace ever since.

We only need to work on RL immortality then.

Cause that's the point, right? We're all homicidal sociopaths because we:
Bump miners
Gank freighters
Use falcon
Blob

And on that note, some people try so hard to tare everyone down to elevate themselves or to appear on equal levels as they themselves practice the horrors that they claim everyone else is doing.

This can also be associated with "projection", where they accuse someone or everyone of doing certain unethical acts while they themselves are actually the only ones doing such things. In other words, projecting their acts or low standards onto someone else as if others are guilty of doing such things when in reality it's just themselves doing such things. My sister does this all the time, it drives us all nuts. It's sort of like a little justification clause to ease her conscience as she runs havoc, serious havoc through peoples lives. Gets worse over time too, like a train wreck.

Nono, the first two prove you are a ~belligerent undesirable~, the latter two prove you are a ~dishonorable scoundrel~.

I don't see anything inherently wrong with falcons or blobs. So if a blob of falcons protect an industrial fleet from pirates, they are dishonorable scoundrels? "Fairness" is reserved for fairy tales.