Well since it’s Friday night and we have successfully survived another week in a nuclear inferno-free stylee my musings on this subject…
Just as Holmes said an ideal reasoner could infer the Niagara Falls from a drop of water in the same way we can infer the troubles of our global society from this AH interchange:-
Shane is continually pointing out an abuse of the report system which is incorrect when deliberately contrived presumably because he is defending his right to point out weak gameplay which he perceives as damaging to the game. And he's right.
99Capera is defending what he perceives as personal attacks exasperated by his PTSD which he thinks should place certain limits on comments mostly from factions of the Knight's 'morning crew' if I have observed correctly (whose callsigns may or may not be prefixed with Mr.) in the past who sometimes take their comments far too vindictively far. And he's right.
Certain members of said aforementioned Knight's 'morning crew' (mostly with callsigns prefixed with Mr) believe in equality and don't accept PTSD as requiring special consideration and especially limitations on saying whatever they wish to say in the spirit of 'freedom of speech', the latter part of which is right.
HiTech, tired from decades of dealing with pointless arguing hosted on a subscription-based game, wishes people could all learn to get along, or otherwise fight it out without bothering him beyond the occasional instruction to one of his voluntary moderators whose job it is - after all - to hand out timeouts when some arbitrary line is crossed. And he's right.
The standard 200-dwelling AH player, in the meantime, is exercising their subscription-given right to make derogatory comments on the sexual-degradation - straight up swearing insult spectrum because they’ve been shot down by another player which they certainly didn’t pay $15 a month for in the first place as this certainly didn’t happen in the real World War. And they’re right, real WW2 pilots did not pay $15 a month.
Putin thinks there is no such thing as Ukrainians, they’re just disloyal Russian subjects, subject to him mostly and he’s all over 200 complaining that his army was not welcomed and threatening to set off his box of fake nuclear fireworks because no one respects his authority and his war budget has now nearly run out and it’s all gone Pete Tong, and he’s right.
The leap to the next level of human evolution is obvious: Just because people are convinced they are doing the right thing does not compel them to actually do it. Stopping asserting your position is not the same thing at all as conceding your position. Forcing people to accept your point invites that other’s points are similarly imposed on you with equal authority - you can just agree to disagree. And finally nothing is happening in a self-centred vacuum, everything we do affects others in accord with our societal-evolution which was formerly community-based: talking as well as listening, instead of just shouting be that via channel 200, Facebook or via artillery. And on that day the endless warring and injustices stopped and humanity moved forward, roughly and jerkily at first, but forward nonetheless.
Happy Friday.
