ElQuirko
Blue Republic
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Posted - 2012.04.20 16:40:00 -
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What you've said about psychopathy makes sense.
HOWEVER.
You say that "they won't be a bad person in the real world". This is wrong. The mask of social inhibitions and moral graces that we all wear prevents us from acting like this, as well as the fear of repercussions if we did. The state keeps control of us not through drugs or respect or the fact that they could wipe us out in one blow but because, simply put, they can't keep control of us in any manner but fear.
Take the pet dog. He has been taught, all his life, to have a massive, twitching inferiority complex. He believes that his master could do anything to him. That dog does not know that he could leap up and tear his master's throat out with relative ease. A nation's armed forces are a minute fraction of the size of the total population - even if equipped with the simplest of weaponry, the high-tech that the armed forces hold could not hold back the crudely armed citizenry when they outnumber each man at least 100,000 to 1. The ability that the police and army hold to keep control of a population is purely "Or else". Nobody asks "or else what?", for the fear that these forces will bring something down on them. With the size of a population on your side, the response would probably be "Or else... or else... well, you'd just better not, okay?".
It is the fear the individual has that he will get caught and punished which restricts us from acting. Take any gang, mob or group of general malcontents. In a big group, they iz badmans, ready to take on anything 'cause they're well 'ard. Take each individual member and he'll urinate inside his underwear when faced with the same possibility.
Now, I've heard the expression that "all internet arguments lead back to the *****", but for once I need to make a relevant point using them. Take the concentration camps, the brutal murders, the smashing of Jewish shops on Kristalnacht. All of these occurred because there would be no repercussions for doing it. The ***** encouraged people to put their animal side to use. People will go along with anything in a group or when there is no possibility of them being punished. The only exception to this, of course, is the hardcore group with a moral compass etched into the very fabric of their existence - great men such as Gandhi, who never believed in any kind of harm to their fellow men.
All in all, I believe that, given the chance, people would act like they do in EVE in reality if they had the same kind of anonymity or freedom to commit the acts without repercussion. I thankyou for reading my mini-essay.
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