2011-07-04, 08:24 AM
Rick Wrote:There comes a point where acting like this just becomes irrational and annoying. You drive, Sarah. Do you enjoy the member of Greenpeace standing on the street corner telling you your car is destroying the Earth? You eat meat. Do you enjoy PETA telling you you're a murderer? Or do you wish they would just let you carry on with your day?
In this situation, you are Greenpeace. You are PETA. What you do is considered wrong by them, but you continue driving your car with that chicken wing in your hand because you've gotta do what you've gotta do. So do the people that want to make it in this game. You can continue to sit there on your high horse and feel all Mother Superior over a collection of pixels, but let these people live their lives how they wish.
I'm greenpeace, not PETA. PETA is wrong -- eating meat is natural for omnivores, which humans naturally are. I don't care about greenpeace because they have a point and as a matter of fact I try to walk whenever possible because of pollution (and gas prices). I don't care about either of these groups, though. If they want to protest, all the power to them. I'm a big fan of peaceful protesting.
It's pretty unbelievable to me, though, that you are suggesting that exploiting or hacking the game is the same as driving or eating meat. You said it yourself -- these are a collection of pixels. There's no need to do anything to "make it." In real life we need to eat meat for proteins. We need to drive to get places. We don't ever need to take advantage of a situation that puts anyone else at a disadvantage or causes hardships for the people providing the service.
What you're suggesting is akin to advocating GANG RAPE. She's already being raped so we might as well join in or we won't get any. That's an extreme example but the point is clear--you're doing something out of want and lack of will over necessity and it is at the expense of someone else.