Alright, with the number of guys coming in here and taking this thread seriously I'll make a serious post.
Butch, you are a liar. You've been lying the last few months telling people you're new, and you lied when you said you were a pilot. All this patting on the back you're getting for owing up to is undeserved and unwarranted.
The anonymity provided to us by the internet doesn't allow us to be whoever we want, it allows us to be precisely who we
are. Some of us are group-thinkers, some of us like to bicker, some of us are thieves, and some of us are liars. The way to find out who you really are is to examine how you behave when Mommy isn't looking over your shoulder.
In the world of throw-away names and protected identities you have nothing on the line. In real life if you owe up to a mistake you are humbly accepting the consequences and willfully taking a hit to your reputation, your one and only reputation. That can sometimes take a significant amount of courage, and some may respect that bravery. The same is not (or at least should not) be true here.
You could've just scrapped this identity and created a new one instead of owing up to your lies, so I don't think this should earn you any brownie points. It just pains me to see it's actually working. A formal apology on the internet by an anonymous individual is worth zilch, imo.
All I got from this thread is to not listen to what Butcher says. Salute anyways, you're fun to fly with.
