It's hard for me personally to feel bad about something I believe to be morally right.
Morally right actions often require hard choices and daunting consequences. An easy choice isn't a moral stand, it's the path of least resistance - even if the action itself is a moral one.
I can't imagine taking a human life and not feeling terrible about it after, no matter the circumstances. I know soldiers who understand this. Someone that kills without remorse is missing something important.
I'm perfectly fine with the "path of least resistance" analogy. Someone tries to kill me , I kill them, they can no longer kill me.
I would liken the lack of feeling remorse for something that (to me) seems very clear cut as an inability to feel pain. One could argue that an inability to feel pain would have its upsides - obviously, you don't feel any pain. If you were in a fist fight, you could go on until your body literally could not move. Conversely, there's disadvantages as well - you might not notice a knife sticking in your thigh, or you would do a strenuous activity so much until your body quite literally breaks down.
I guess what I'm saying is that I just see it as the other side of the same coin.
I'd understand protectionist laws that try to prevent ecological harm by removal of a species (like, say, shooting the primary predator in a forest, which would result in a population explosion of its prey), but it's hard to have sympathy over a particularly endangered field mouse sitting on some poor bastard's farm lot. Congratulations Mr. Farmer, thanks to federal law you can't do anything with your land, and no one wants to buy it either!
I'd go for a different view there. Okay, someone shoots an armed man breaking into his home and he feels bad about it. That's normal. How is it any less normal to not feel bad about it?
I can understand taking the view of being sad, depressed, or even angry about deciding to end a human life in self-defense, but I can just as easily understand not really feeling bad at all. It came down to me or him, and I came out on top. I'd say you'd feel even less remorse if you were protecting someone other than yourself - if you see someone getting raped in a back alley and kill the attacker, well... I'd find it difficult to feel any remorse. It's hard for me personally to feel bad about something I believe to be morally right.
I still use them and I still recommend them on account of their excellent telephone customer service. But I'll definitely be keeping an eye on how things turn out with this.
It's quite easy to see. They rape and pillage for all the money they can, and then things go tits up. The economy is in the shitter... except it doesn't affect them because they're millionaires or billionaires. They spend the downtime thinking up a new way to increase their money.
14+14 might have made sense where it would take months for a shipment of books to get from Europe to America, but today honestly? Don't movies stop making decent money after 6 weeks? Same with games and music I believe - after the first 2 months or so the money only trickles in.
I'd rather see modern copyrighht be something more like 1+1, with a bitch of a filing fee for the second year.
They're not in it for the love of making games anymore. They're in it for the money.
The reason Farmville and its ilk are crappy games is the same reason that EA makes crappy games. They're made with bad intentions (in the sense of game design) from the start.
Considering how labyrinthine the tax code is, I'm honestly surprised that some company has not come along and created an enterprise software solution that tracks and handles taxation for all the varying states, counties, cities, etc. Quicken, for instance, has been very profitable in doing this with the U.S. tax code. If a company created a software suite that can accurately track taxes owed and produce records to that effect, internet retailers would be tripping over themselves to buy it.
EVE Online (who is also in the news about this monetization sorta stuff) was always really good with this in the last few years. Originally they were like many MMOS - drop fiddy bucks on the game, then pay $15/month. Now it's $5 to activate your account and $15/month after that. $5! Wow is like a hundred bucks to get all the expansions (and then some), and that just gets you started. It's a huge up-front cost. Blizzard made more than enough money on their game at this point - I'm honestly surprised that they haven't switched to a similar model.
Scratch that, no I'm not surprised at all. They know that the fanboys will pony up the $50 every time an expansion comes out. *sigh* I'd actually be more likely to get into WoW again and play it occasionally if it didn't cost so much.
For those interested, check out a brief clip from Graham Chapman's funeral. John Cleese delivers the eulogy, and there's a song at the end (bonus points if you guess what it is without looking).
Wow, okay... so, I've had those before then, because that explains exactly the sort of symptoms I get a couple times a year. Thanks, now I'm going to be even more paranoid. d:
I always imagined that one could make a successful gym and life consulation center if they ran it like an MMO. "Congrats to WhereBear22 for losing 13 pounds and hitting Level 10!"
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Too few people believe in this principle for there to yet be an effective resistance against the PATRIOT act.
There's an excellent Powerpoint Presentation on this very phenomenon.
It's hard for me personally to feel bad about something I believe to be morally right.
Morally right actions often require hard choices and daunting consequences. An easy choice isn't a moral stand, it's the path of least resistance - even if the action itself is a moral one.
I can't imagine taking a human life and not feeling terrible about it after, no matter the circumstances. I know soldiers who understand this. Someone that kills without remorse is missing something important.
I'm perfectly fine with the "path of least resistance" analogy. Someone tries to kill me , I kill them, they can no longer kill me.
I would liken the lack of feeling remorse for something that (to me) seems very clear cut as an inability to feel pain. One could argue that an inability to feel pain would have its upsides - obviously, you don't feel any pain. If you were in a fist fight, you could go on until your body literally could not move. Conversely, there's disadvantages as well - you might not notice a knife sticking in your thigh, or you would do a strenuous activity so much until your body quite literally breaks down.
I guess what I'm saying is that I just see it as the other side of the same coin.
I'd understand protectionist laws that try to prevent ecological harm by removal of a species (like, say, shooting the primary predator in a forest, which would result in a population explosion of its prey), but it's hard to have sympathy over a particularly endangered field mouse sitting on some poor bastard's farm lot. Congratulations Mr. Farmer, thanks to federal law you can't do anything with your land, and no one wants to buy it either!
Of course Thorium is abundant. It's all over Burning Steppes, and that's only a 50-52 zone.
Amazingly, none of the rare earth minerals seem to have even a hint of blue shading.
If it makes you feel better, The US is getting fucked too.
Well sure, China tends to take the term Poo Poo Platter a little too literally for my taste.
I'd go for a different view there. Okay, someone shoots an armed man breaking into his home and he feels bad about it. That's normal. How is it any less normal to not feel bad about it?
I can understand taking the view of being sad, depressed, or even angry about deciding to end a human life in self-defense, but I can just as easily understand not really feeling bad at all. It came down to me or him, and I came out on top. I'd say you'd feel even less remorse if you were protecting someone other than yourself - if you see someone getting raped in a back alley and kill the attacker, well... I'd find it difficult to feel any remorse. It's hard for me personally to feel bad about something I believe to be morally right.
Who is this Stan guy and how'd he get his name on so many countries anyway?
I still use them and I still recommend them on account of their excellent telephone customer service. But I'll definitely be keeping an eye on how things turn out with this.
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It's quite easy to see. They rape and pillage for all the money they can, and then things go tits up. The economy is in the shitter... except it doesn't affect them because they're millionaires or billionaires. They spend the downtime thinking up a new way to increase their money.
14+14 might have made sense where it would take months for a shipment of books to get from Europe to America, but today honestly? Don't movies stop making decent money after 6 weeks? Same with games and music I believe - after the first 2 months or so the money only trickles in.
I'd rather see modern copyrighht be something more like 1+1, with a bitch of a filing fee for the second year.
They're not in it for the love of making games anymore. They're in it for the money.
The reason Farmville and its ilk are crappy games is the same reason that EA makes crappy games. They're made with bad intentions (in the sense of game design) from the start.
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Considering how labyrinthine the tax code is, I'm honestly surprised that some company has not come along and created an enterprise software solution that tracks and handles taxation for all the varying states, counties, cities, etc. Quicken, for instance, has been very profitable in doing this with the U.S. tax code. If a company created a software suite that can accurately track taxes owed and produce records to that effect, internet retailers would be tripping over themselves to buy it.
Dutch hater.
EVE Online (who is also in the news about this monetization sorta stuff) was always really good with this in the last few years. Originally they were like many MMOS - drop fiddy bucks on the game, then pay $15/month. Now it's $5 to activate your account and $15/month after that. $5! Wow is like a hundred bucks to get all the expansions (and then some), and that just gets you started. It's a huge up-front cost. Blizzard made more than enough money on their game at this point - I'm honestly surprised that they haven't switched to a similar model.
Scratch that, no I'm not surprised at all. They know that the fanboys will pony up the $50 every time an expansion comes out. *sigh* I'd actually be more likely to get into WoW again and play it occasionally if it didn't cost so much.
For those interested, check out a brief clip from Graham Chapman's funeral. John Cleese delivers the eulogy, and there's a song at the end (bonus points if you guess what it is without looking).
"Pushing their worldview on everyone else" is San Francisco's specialty. See what happened with the long-standing handgun ban.
Wow, okay... so, I've had those before then, because that explains exactly the sort of symptoms I get a couple times a year. Thanks, now I'm going to be even more paranoid. d:
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I always imagined that one could make a successful gym and life consulation center if they ran it like an MMO. "Congrats to WhereBear22 for losing 13 pounds and hitting Level 10!"
Thanks for the info, interesting read.
If you can seriously ask this question, shame on you for not paying attention to a huge on-going ecological disaster.
Unfortunately, there's far too many "huge, on-going ecological disasters" for the average person to keep track of.