EVE General Discussion

Sorry, you just acted like the sterotypical internet thug who thinks he's a hardass so I just thought... Oh well, nevermind :P

Two things I've learned in life. 1.) Don't expect a crazy person to make sense. 2.) Don't argue with a fool. He'll drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.

There's no way the player population of this game, the real world army of your choice, a governmental body (pick a country), or any gathering of the present occupants of earth can be above their established mental state...or balance...imbalance? The truth is, the frontal lobe activity of the present day earthling is negligible. That's where the consequence of action, or moral consequence of action is mediated. There's a new term for it now...since sociopathic psychiatrists are counted in this mix...but the old term is "sociopath."

We often mistake sociopathy as isolated to serial killers (an estimated 65 of these running around the U.S. at any given moment.) But, the truth is, there's two kinds of sociopaths. The bold ones are the serial killers. The chicken ones are too afraid of real world consequences (read: electric chair, hanging, lethal injection) to actually act out their disorder. So, you will find, in the safety of an environment like this, they feel free to express what they are naturally.

A feature of sociopaths is claiming "everybody else does it, so why not me?" You've seen that in one form or another in the responses to your post. What's unique about EVE interactively speaking is, the management actually approves of, supports and themselves participate in this behavior, naturally seeing nothing in the world wrong with it. In fact, the vast majority of EVE players use it as a means to release their sociopathy, and so will tell you it's "what the sandbox is all about," and "you have a problem if you can't deal with that, boo hoo you."

Naturally, it's lost on them the other potentials and options that unafflicted people would see as a matter of course, and would also attempt keeping in line with the nature of unsullied human intelligence. They see this sort of enterprise and activity as merely a victim setting him or herself up to be -ized by them, gleefullly.

In a very real sense, therefore, in EVE you are actually in a culture of sociopaths. In a very real sense in the real world you are also in a culture of sociopaths. So, if you see sociopathic behavior and don't recognize it as such, that's very likely a sign you are so afflicted, too. If you DO see such behavior and react as though this person should change for the sake of common sense, I refer you to "what I learned in life 1."

Have a nice day.