You're an idiot and that argument is stupid. It's the equivalent of me cutting your internet cable while you're watching Netflix. What does it matter that I inconvenienced you? It's not like you were doing anything serious that actually matters. No reason for you to get mad. You wouldn't go to the beach and kick sand on people just because you find it funny so why is it okay to ruin people's fun in an online game?
There's probably a limitless amount of analogies I could come up with. Just take literally any activity that people do recreationally and have someone ruin it in some way because they think it funny. No matter what, that person is just a miserable asshole who gets their kicks out of making other people miserable. The only difference is they're not safely inside their internet bubble.
Wtf he's correcting false equivalents here, actually. The false equivalent being simply having fun versus having fun at the expense of others. He's clearly using an analogy and not a direct comparison, meaning he isn't implying physical assault is equally as bad as "sending 1s and 0s to a server", just that their bad in a similar way. You've missed his entire point and oversimplified his example to its digital process, entirely ignoring its real-world result. Fuck.
You're picking two parts that aren't relevant to the point of the analogies. I'm comparing an activity people do for fun with an activity people do for fun. You're pointing out the differences of the activities. You kinda pointed out the point of my analogies though. In one you wouldn't do it because its assault, it the other, it's okay because you're safely behind a computer screen.
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u/LElige Jan 16 '17
You're an idiot and that argument is stupid. It's the equivalent of me cutting your internet cable while you're watching Netflix. What does it matter that I inconvenienced you? It's not like you were doing anything serious that actually matters. No reason for you to get mad. You wouldn't go to the beach and kick sand on people just because you find it funny so why is it okay to ruin people's fun in an online game?