Who is your favourite public forum personality?
LordofBones. Just the name is so cool. And he always had interesting things to say. Funny, biting, just plain fun. Following him, it was that guy who started the topic on nuking someone with 50 points or something. If there was anyone who spiced up the forums, it was that guy. I wish the mod would reopen that thread. I laughed at every reply!
What do you think of the decisions that players make, from a moral perspective, in a system such as this, without real life consequence?
A good question, but again, the perspective is prejudiced. Who says that this game has no real life consequence? Everything we do has real life consequences and I expand that by saying everything we do has ETERNAL consequences. This is a game. Many people play and take on roles that do not reflect the way they act in real life, but do reflect how they would act in RL, given the chance. A bully here is a wanna-be bully in RL. An angry warrior here is angry in his heart in RL. And, those that come here from relief of a bad RL, I bet big money they would love to have the same family, friends, and tribe in RL!
So, your question is 180 degrees wrong. Moral decisions made in this world do have serious consequences in RL. In a sense, we either bring our RL morals here, or we take our TW morals there. We are all the same person in both worlds. Our morals cannot be compartmentalized. We are who we are, no matter where we are. If you actually think that we do not carry baggage back and forth, with actual RL consequences over there, then I challenge you to rethink your position. The way I act on this world influences my RL and has eternal consequences. After all, if I hurt someone here with my words, that hurt follows them into the RL.....
