Originally posted by MajIssue
REALLY?!
Obviously your real world attitude and moral compass are reflected in your comments.
Yes I deplore spys and side switchers as the opportunists or "perk prostitutes" that they are. Loyalty and honor in this game are virtues that reflect the respect that actual avaitors have shown to their wartime adversaries throughout the short history of combat avaition. As a former member of the US Armed Forces, who has seen actual combat, I would be extremly skeptical about the loyalty of a traitor or spy in a real world situation. Perhaps my experiences color my attitudes toward behavior that to me is just plain wrong.
Proportion?
By discussing this issue in an open forum it brings an annoying problem to light and allows possible solutions to that problem to be suggested by other participants.
Looking at "the big picture", I fly Aces High for fun and entertainment. Also because the FAA (and other agencies) might frown on me mounting M2s on a Cessna 182 and waxing the tails of unsuspecting aircraft at my local airport! Let's face it, this game is the closest most of us will ever get to actual combat avaition... so look for me on your six my friend!!!
I fund it amusing that a green at the gills newb has the arrogance to question the "moral compass" of anyone at all --
-- and me thinks that if you had any concept of the lives lived by some of the side switchers you've insulted, you'd crawl into a hole from shame.
I took too long to respond to most of your mud slinging, and others have done you in better than I could anyway. So I'll leave most of your drivel alone.
On the off chance that reason can reach you, let me say that your inability to understand what I meant by proportion just proves my point. This is a GAME, like chess. You seem to be saying that if I defeat an opponent playing the white peices, and switch to play the black ones, I am immoral and disloyal. Or maybe a better illustration: If I'm playing pickup football and a couple guys have to leave, is it really immoral or disloyal for me to switch over to the other side in order to keep the game going? After all, if its 6 on one side and 3 on the other, we all know what'd happen -- the ganged side would lose, they'd get tired of playing, and go home. End result -- no game for anyone. And AH is a GAME, played for fun among friends.
The big difference between war and this GAME is what's being fought over. There is absolutely nothing at stake in a game, or a map, of Aces High. Nothing. Zero. Nada. It starts again 30 secs after it ends. Watch endless cycle that for 5 years, and then see if you still think "winning" the contest is more important than the people -- on all sides -- who enjoy the contest for its own sake.
