To Ginseng. Here is what you said.
"Those were rhetorical questions with an answer to that rhetorical question. It was meant to give you perspective on how things are in the world."
Oh, thank you so much, because I had absolutely no perspective on the world before I started reading your verbose posts.
"Remember, a large part of maturity is understanding a situation and knowing what to do and what not to do in that given situation. Emotions will get in the way for sure, but reasoning and logic coupled with those emotions, will surely help you in deciding what you should do versus what you might and would have done."
My reasoning and logic, which have been honed in the professional world and elite academic institutions perceived you as condescending, pretentious and superior.
"Again, a little perception goes a long way."
My point exactly.
But don't feel bad, whoever said, "you can't rape the willing" was WAY, WAY worse. Why is that in quotes exactly? Did Thomas Jefferson say that? Or Sun Tzu? Rousseau?
And to the point that my friend should have explained herself and made a joke about it. It is far different to have been violently raped than to say "my mother's an epileptic" (which is such a tortured analogy I doubt it's accuracy). My ex had a terrible anxiety attack, immediately logged off, called her shrink for a new prescription, spent a week reliving the horror, let the rest of her subscription expire, and shuddered when I mentioned WoW. The idea that she should have said, "you know, one night I was walking back to my apartment and a filthy stranger punched me in the head, gave me a concussion, and then ass raped me so violently I needed a colostomy bag while the sutures healed" is so simply ridiculous that it shouldn't even be worthy of comment. THAT, in fact, is the main reason I am rather sensitive to this issue.
And to the guy who says I go to school every day and get called names, DOESN'T THAT SUCK? Wouldn't you rather not deal with it? Look, states are now considering LAWS because the whole issue of cyber bullying is getting so out of hand. PEOPLE ARE KILLING THEMSELVES BECAUSE OF IT. There is a woman in California facing 20 years Federal time for abusing some poor girl on MySpace into hanging herself. But then again, she put herself on MySpace and you can't rape the willing.
What a load of shit.
For those of you who have criticized me, or at least not supported my main thesis that WoW could be a more courteous place (which was all I suggested and many of you are apparently quite opposed to even in theory), the worst thing I have done is to create a thread that has got people talking. Maybe not thinking, but at least talking. Forgive me if I am not in the least ashamed of having done so, and have no apologies for the methods I have used to keep that conversation going.
There is a future in this virtual world, and it does not belong to the /spitters and /rapers. It belongs to guys like me. Because when you all get out of hand, WE will start passing laws (as is already happening), and I'm of the opinion that the fewer laws the better, but we'll only have fewer laws if we have fewer assholes. And assholes are abundant, seems like everybody's got one.
"Those were rhetorical questions with an answer to that rhetorical question. It was meant to give you perspective on how things are in the world."
Oh, thank you so much, because I had absolutely no perspective on the world before I started reading your verbose posts.
"Remember, a large part of maturity is understanding a situation and knowing what to do and what not to do in that given situation. Emotions will get in the way for sure, but reasoning and logic coupled with those emotions, will surely help you in deciding what you should do versus what you might and would have done."
My reasoning and logic, which have been honed in the professional world and elite academic institutions perceived you as condescending, pretentious and superior.
"Again, a little perception goes a long way."
My point exactly.
But don't feel bad, whoever said, "you can't rape the willing" was WAY, WAY worse. Why is that in quotes exactly? Did Thomas Jefferson say that? Or Sun Tzu? Rousseau?
And to the point that my friend should have explained herself and made a joke about it. It is far different to have been violently raped than to say "my mother's an epileptic" (which is such a tortured analogy I doubt it's accuracy). My ex had a terrible anxiety attack, immediately logged off, called her shrink for a new prescription, spent a week reliving the horror, let the rest of her subscription expire, and shuddered when I mentioned WoW. The idea that she should have said, "you know, one night I was walking back to my apartment and a filthy stranger punched me in the head, gave me a concussion, and then ass raped me so violently I needed a colostomy bag while the sutures healed" is so simply ridiculous that it shouldn't even be worthy of comment. THAT, in fact, is the main reason I am rather sensitive to this issue.
And to the guy who says I go to school every day and get called names, DOESN'T THAT SUCK? Wouldn't you rather not deal with it? Look, states are now considering LAWS because the whole issue of cyber bullying is getting so out of hand. PEOPLE ARE KILLING THEMSELVES BECAUSE OF IT. There is a woman in California facing 20 years Federal time for abusing some poor girl on MySpace into hanging herself. But then again, she put herself on MySpace and you can't rape the willing.
What a load of shit.
For those of you who have criticized me, or at least not supported my main thesis that WoW could be a more courteous place (which was all I suggested and many of you are apparently quite opposed to even in theory), the worst thing I have done is to create a thread that has got people talking. Maybe not thinking, but at least talking. Forgive me if I am not in the least ashamed of having done so, and have no apologies for the methods I have used to keep that conversation going.
There is a future in this virtual world, and it does not belong to the /spitters and /rapers. It belongs to guys like me. Because when you all get out of hand, WE will start passing laws (as is already happening), and I'm of the opinion that the fewer laws the better, but we'll only have fewer laws if we have fewer assholes. And assholes are abundant, seems like everybody's got one.