If you enjoy inflicting distress on others in a game you no doubt enjoy it in RL as well.

The thing is, whether or not it's "part of the game" or "not against the rules"... the fact is your actions are still 100% your choice.

Players who try to hide behind lines like "nowhere in EVE is safe" or "the GMs allow it" or "it's just part of the game" are moral and intellectual cowards trying to pass off blame for their own actions (and guilt) onto an innocent third party.

What if I told you that I work as a dentist IRL and that I get off on the pain I inflict?

You can guess I am not a pirate, hell I pop pirates for fun.

There is no excuse for your actions in EVE, THEY DEFINE YOU as a player and as a person. If you don't do that in RL that does not erase their relevance.

Flame me all you want.

I choose to engage in PvP and shoot only reds/pirates that is a BIG difference from engaging a solo miner in high sec for the LOLS.

You guys are very dangerous people in RL

Anyway, I find myself wondering if people who scam in EVE what stops them from doing it in real life?

Fighting honourably in 0.0 for sov or other stuff is no issue IMO, but ganking a miner for LOLZ or scamming in JITA that is a different story IMO. I guess all have their own standard for their life some have a really low one and it shows in EVE.

CAUSING PAIN JUST BECAUSE U CAN SHOWS WHO YOU ARE!!! - there is a big difference if you fight for a goal aka SOV, killing high sec miners is just a quest for SELF GRATIFICATION.

You don't see players rage against other players like some do in Eve unless there have been some sportsmanship issues.

That's not true, ganking people has nothing to do with sportsmanship, but it is about the tears (griefing people) which is allowed in the rules as long as it's using the game mechanics.

If you enjoy killing peeps in EVE that have no chance to strike back or at least be able to fight then you should take a loot in the mirror and ask yourself what kind of a person you are?

My issue is with people that take pleasure in the pain of others [GǪ] OP is right to question some behaviour in EVE as a RL issue.

I like how the phrase "not reality, it's a game" gets tossed out here. That only makes sense if you're able to completely dehumanize the other players, or if it was purely NPCs being opposed.

The fact of the matter is, it is reality. There is another person on the other keyboard.......

I'm not trying to make any points aside from pointing out that your sport analogy is a poor one. So no, it doesn't make a difference, because the whole sport scenario is not especially applicable to the conversation. That is, unless every player looked at Eve as a sport, which is not the case.

I don't know why I would bother, but....do you not see the inverse of that? A position that is no less valid? Take the very end of that sentence and reword it....."that they feel elation when they explode someone's pixels".

If the ganker or griefer can feel real life elation and joy at blowing up another real person's "pixels", why isn't it just as valid for the other person to be pissed and angry? Why is that somehow an emotional flaw?

You do not lie when you bluff in poker. A lie is saying something that is untrue when you know it is untrue.

I see you avoided the question I asked.

So if someone bluffs in poker you think you are ok to call them a liar?

Really what was his answer then?

Here is another question that was irrelevant and stupid.

Does mittens know you are here posting instead of making him money and fame in null sec? You better get ratting and stop pretending you can think for yourself. You can't.

What ever you do don't actually try to think and answer the question. Anything but that.

What if, during a rugby or (American) football game, the teams would intentionally target individual players and injure them on purpose, and then on their blogs brag about how they wrecked this guys season or put that guy out of a career?

Sure they could not and should not be charged with assault but would they still be allowed to play?

Would they be considered good players?

This game involves allot of metagaming so there is not such a clear line between ingame and out of game.

If there were you would be able to answer the questions I put forth as easilly as I can answer your questions.

Yes, in particular.

I normally have a tendency to play Lawful Good or Chaotic Good (role playing terms). From everything I've read and seen in EVE so far it seems like a majority of people have no problem and intentionally go out of their way to kill people for no reason whatsoever besides simply killing them and taking their stuff.

Neutral is what it is. Freedom..true freedom now THAT'S terrifying, essp when you realise that for it to actually exist - it needs to apply to everyone.

A truly free world would be a terrifying place.