Volar Kang
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2014.03.19 19:12:00 -
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Wall of text hits you for 1,000,000,000 damage. (Sorry for the rant, I'm in a weird mood today)
Your issue is the same issue that our world leaders suffer from. You lack the understanding to deal with the fact that not everyone likes what you like, not everyone wants to do what you want to do and not everyone thinks the same way you think. Someone practices a different religion than you? Attack them! Someone wants to live in peace and not fight? Attack them. Someone wants to mind his own business and mine a bit while he prepares for his college class and reads a textbook? Attack him!
Aggressive people have always attacked non-aggressive people. Look at all the attacks and suffering that Gandhi suffered through his life. He never raised a hand against anyone. As humans, it is our nature to fight each other and try and control others around us. Eve is a great example of the hopelessness of the human condition. Given the chance, we will steal from those who have not taken from us, insult those who have not insulted us and we will destroy those who have not wronged us.
Why do people hate miners? Because they are different and enjoy a different play style. We hate everything that is not like us because we are scared that if other ideas or religions or even game play styles are not like ours, those may become the norm and the one I enjoy may become the odd or underappreciated one.
Ask yourself why people attack defenseless ships, it proves nothing. Why do elite PVPers like to blow up ships that can not fire back at them, it proves nothing. Why do people like it when they induce rage in others, again it does not prove anything. You earn no honor, you prove no skill, the only benefit is the enjoyment of human suffering and the chance to earn a few credits in a game. You can say you are teaching players to tank better or that you are roleplaying a pirate but those are excuses. No one asked to be taught how to tank. If you want to teach then join Eve Uni and teach people who actually want to learn. If you want to play a pirate go to lowsec and prey on people who are expecting you and have accepted the risk of pirates by journeying into your space.
Given the chance and removing the negative consequences, a great many of us would choose to inflict pain on others in order to enforce our ideas or beliefs. Miners make easy targets and allow us to tap into that evil part inside of us that we refuse to admit we have. Why is Russia invading the Ukraine? Because Russia feels the US is weak under Obama and that it will not suffer any consequences. Since Eve offers very little in the area of consequences, the same thing happens here, take from others, cause them pain and beat chest to show the world you are the superior ones.
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