Originally by: EglantinFinfleur

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Edited by: EglantinFinfleur on 30/09/2008 18:14:38
Welcome to the modern world of absolute relativism, in which nobody takes a stand for anything, except sometimes for one's buddies in the sustained hope that they will care about you too in the future.
Since there's no moral authority in EvE -i.e. no far-reaching npc/playerbase managed faction that would hunt down gankers and scum-, and since there is absolutely no incentive to bust gatecamps, protect people, prevent villainous characters to pursue their villainous deeds, everybody just minds their own business, often collective if there is a bit of greed or need for engagements.
Collective vigilantism is out of the equation, as there is no worthwhile rewards for it.

I would also surmise that the potential 'good guys' don't have the common sheep mentality that you can see in 0.0. They won't join the pyramid schemes going on in that part of the EvE galaxy, so they don't meet and greet and form new corps. There are some in lowsec i think. The Parrot Shoppe comes to mind. Ask them about their vigilante endeavors though. They came to the conclusion that policing lowsec only encourages freebooters to come do business, without participating in the policing -which bears no rewards, this should always be reminded-.

The rest are in highsec running missions alone, or in laidback corps. They don't go in 0.0 for aforementioned reasons, and they don't go in lowsec, because gankers huddle in 10ish gangs -one bait at gate, 9 docked fapping/eating hotpockets, ready to undock when called on voice coms-, and won't engage if you have equal or superior numbers.

Did i mention there's no incentive at all to police spacelanes?

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