Don't Go Into The Corn Field

Via GameSetWatch, Clickable Culture's look at the Second Life version of purgatory - The Corn Field. A player explores an off-grid prison that misbehaving avatars are sent too for infractions. From the article: "Yaffle tested the limits of the prison, finding that communication to Second Life's 'Main Grid' was cut off. He even came up with a scheme to crash the server The Corn Field was running on in order to be teleported to the nearest safe simulator by default, but creating objects in The Corn Field appears to be impossible. Having exhausted his options, Yaffle merely waited around to see if anyone else would show up. A Linden Lab employee did stop by, but was incommunicado. 'If I was them, I would have been watching me and laughing,' Yaffle told me. 'I know I was laughing even though it was a punishment.'"

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Re:Dealing with rule breakers is a chore

[vertinox]

No. No, it's not.

If tomorrow you awoke to find watching the news in which a fascist/socialist/communist group overthrew the govnerment with the support of the army and declared that all freedoms we once enjoyed were curtailed would you agree or no? Not only that they have outlawed the religion you believe in (whatever it is even if it is aetheism)

Now you are the rule breaker... But what if everyone is now prejudice against you because of what you believe in. It is the same as rascism. People don't hate the color of your skin, they hate your culture... They hate what you believe in... It just so happened that the color of the skin was just an easy reference point for the ignorant to make an assumption on who you were and what you believed in.

People need to realize rules are not always good rulesets (exscuse the pun) for morality. They are hopefully a basis for what we believe to be right and wrong and good and bad, but sometimes those things that we believe in are no longer the rule of law and the rules have to be broken.

That is when the rule breakers become heros in our history.

I'm not really justifying whatever the guy did but... You have to keep in mind that not all rule breakers are bad people and often are the people that we need in our world.