EVE General Discussion

The reality is not so straight forward. See, there is the majority and then their are the powerful. When the majority's and the powerful's ideology coincide then there is change to reflect that. When the majority's and the powerful's ideology are opposed then there is a great chance that the majority will lose the ideological fight.

History is replete with such examples, ancient and contemporary. It is only the rare occasion that the majority's ideology wins out over the powerful's...those times are usually known as revolutions and heads typically roll.

As to slavery, the majority...not being able to afford them, having their jobs taken by them and at great risk to themselves to become one...long ago thought it was bad. It's only in the last 200 - 300 years that the powerful....er...'society' deemed it to be so and therefore rid itself (haha) of slavery. The reality here is, if you live in a society where a great number of jobs only offer enough income to pay for living expenses and in many cases not even, the true question is have we really ended slavery. The answer to that is obviously, no. We're all slaves. The difference in modern times is that our masters had only rid themselves of the liability of ownership. Some of us are lucky enough to be less slavish than others. But, all in all, contemporary western civilization is pretty good for the masses when compared to history.

I think Steven Fry summed it up pretty well.



'It's now very common to hear people say, "I'm rather offended by that", as if that gives them certain rights. It's no more than a whine. It has no meaning, it has no purpose, it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. "I'm offended by that." Well, so fooking what?' —Stephen Fry

TL;DR:

Your name is your figurehead/signboard.

long version:

I use the names and the text in the Bio section of others in order to gues the kind of person the player is or at least want's to be.

Choosing a reasonably name shows some respect towards other players, and (at least for me) indicates, that the player is willing to play this "world simulation" with some more passion than "pew-pew-i-do-not-care-about-any-others".

If the person has chosen a ridiculous or disrespectful name, he or she cannot expect me thinking he or she being a respectable or serious person. (well, maybe that was the goal of that person?)

But as long ad the person did not choosed an really offending name, like for example the name of an mass murdering dictator, something degrading, inhumane, very feculent or hatefull, i just choose to ignore them. As far as i remember i have not reported any name in EVE up to now.

And indeed: It is difficult to determine, what is offending and what is not. This is an international game, played within different societies with different beliefes.

My advice: Just report only those names, which are (in your opinion) really obviously offending - if you think, it should be reported.

Is the line "no few than 600 yards from any preschool,highschool or public play area"?

It was quite obviously OK by some societies. In fact it still is.

You are confused by the semantics of the words OK and wrong, which are malleable within both sides of any issue.

This is the effect of the downfall of the education system the past few decades folks. Welcome to it.

i have personally reported offensive names and seen them changed within a week (it is a bad idea to mouth off on the forums with a racist name)

many goons have had their names forcibly changed as well

Alrighty, Sir, I'm just gonna block you finally. Don't bother with your crap in the future as I will absolutely not see it.

After many years in the Internet I cannot be offended by pixels.

freedom of speech is protection against the government

people and corporations cutting ties with you and shunning you is exactly how it's supposed to work

poop and stuff