07-11-2003, 05:44 AM
Rules with Possibilities. What is possible doesn't guarantee its right to occur. Rules are established to keep freedoms from deteriorating into chaos. PKs promote chaos... and so the whole ideology of "rules" would be an anathem to them.
4 gentlemen sit down to a card table and play poker. The dealer calls Seven-card stud, Jack's wild and 10's to open the bid. The deal and start to ante up around the group. A 5th man enters, sits down and pours his beer across the table. He then demands the cards, that the ante is now clothing and that each player must pay the dealer 50 dollars for every card he wants from the deck. The 4 initial players get up and leave.
The game is ruined; the fifth man changed the "rules" and did so for his own benefit. His ability to sit down at the table and act like a complete asshole doesn't change the fact that it ruined the game, changed the "rules" that were agreed upon by the initial four... and all because the fifth man is a social retard unable to exist in the company of others, save for the desire to disrupt and annoy.
The reality of Real Life is that #5 would have himself removed from the house, possibly to the nearest mental facility. The reality of battle.net is that the PK is most likely hacked to godhood and will suffer no retribution. He justifies doing his actions because he CAN. It is POSSIBLE. It can OCCUR. He further minimizes any damage or outrage of his idiocy by claiming the triviality of the situation. The truth is that his actions ARE trivial... it was the cooperative effort that he ruined that was worthy of note.
If that position is "fair" but not "valid"... I can live with that. Some of us try to exist a tad above the lowest common denominator.
4 gentlemen sit down to a card table and play poker. The dealer calls Seven-card stud, Jack's wild and 10's to open the bid. The deal and start to ante up around the group. A 5th man enters, sits down and pours his beer across the table. He then demands the cards, that the ante is now clothing and that each player must pay the dealer 50 dollars for every card he wants from the deck. The 4 initial players get up and leave.
The game is ruined; the fifth man changed the "rules" and did so for his own benefit. His ability to sit down at the table and act like a complete asshole doesn't change the fact that it ruined the game, changed the "rules" that were agreed upon by the initial four... and all because the fifth man is a social retard unable to exist in the company of others, save for the desire to disrupt and annoy.
The reality of Real Life is that #5 would have himself removed from the house, possibly to the nearest mental facility. The reality of battle.net is that the PK is most likely hacked to godhood and will suffer no retribution. He justifies doing his actions because he CAN. It is POSSIBLE. It can OCCUR. He further minimizes any damage or outrage of his idiocy by claiming the triviality of the situation. The truth is that his actions ARE trivial... it was the cooperative effort that he ruined that was worthy of note.
If that position is "fair" but not "valid"... I can live with that. Some of us try to exist a tad above the lowest common denominator.
Garnered Wisdom --
If it has more than four legs, kill it immediately.
Never hesitate to put another bullet into the skull of the movie's main villain; it'll save time on the denouement.
Eight hours per day of children's TV programming can reduce a grown man to tears -- PM me for details.
If it has more than four legs, kill it immediately.
Never hesitate to put another bullet into the skull of the movie's main villain; it'll save time on the denouement.
Eight hours per day of children's TV programming can reduce a grown man to tears -- PM me for details.