EVE New Citizens Q&A

EVE was pitched wrong. EVE is: You can try to do what you like. Just because you try to do something, doesn't mean you're entitled to success. In EVE, the challenges you face almost always come from other players, hence why it's a PvP game and anyone that plays it needs to either embrace it, or play in a way they don't fall victim to it.

Why is the presence of competition a sad fact?

EDIT: Sorry might have sounded a bit antagonistic there. I generally agree with your post, but just wondering why you would considering competition to be a bad thing.

Do you also tell people that shoot at you in a standard shooter game that they are a-holes?
Eve is a role playing game and lots of people play different roles on different chars.
Eve is a game where your team mates can betray you at any time and thus trust becomes a valuable commodity. If you do betray /steal etc then often the consquences will follow you for the rest of eve. These conequences may be good or bad for you depending on the other players.
We create our own storylines and sometimes they are known to just a few around us and sometimes they reverberate across eve.
Everyone is free to ATTEMPT to play the way they want and everyone else is free to try and stop them.
Personally i find that peoples experience in eve says more about them than the people around them. People with good social skills who learn quickly and adapt find great pleasure in eve. People who tend to react to the new with hostility and cursing tend to find eve a unpleasant place.
Dear OP with your level of negativity , hostility, aggression and entitlement i worry that anyone allowed you to carry a gun.......
Luckily i live in a country where we don't allow people to carry guns (including 99% of the police) as we are observant enough to have spotted that people with guns sometimes shoot other people and that this helps no one.