Mistakenly posted as anonymous coward...the shame...sigh.
As for being cool... I am way cooler than I think I am, and better looking too. Now hand me another beer.
Sure, it could be said that this world is uncaring and populated with less than stellar personalities. I might even agree with that to a certain degree, which is why it is understandable that a person would want to escape it as often as possible. In the end, however, such escapism is self-defeating. Our beloved Hardcore Gamer may think that the more he gets to know humanity the more he is disgusted with it, but that's because it's what he chooses to see.
Life itself has no inherrent traits, it has neither good nor bad, lor or hate. It has nothing. Everything that has value in our lives is so valued because we give it value; the same is true with what we choose to see in humanity.
Ultimately, what we choose to accept of the world determines how we feel about it. The holocaust was bad, really bad; but that doesn't make it the defining trait of humanity. After all, someone made that whole affair end...
I find it sickening that someone can so easily say they hate the world, then try and create a new one that offers no fulfillment. That virtual world is not permanent, it does not endure, but the real world is always going on, even when you turn your back on it.
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Mistakenly posted as anonymous coward...the shame...sigh. As for being cool... I am way cooler than I think I am, and better looking too. Now hand me another beer.
Sure, it could be said that this world is uncaring and populated with less than stellar personalities. I might even agree with that to a certain degree, which is why it is understandable that a person would want to escape it as often as possible. In the end, however, such escapism is self-defeating. Our beloved Hardcore Gamer may think that the more he gets to know humanity the more he is disgusted with it, but that's because it's what he chooses to see.
Life itself has no inherrent traits, it has neither good nor bad, lor or hate. It has nothing. Everything that has value in our lives is so valued because we give it value; the same is true with what we choose to see in humanity.
Ultimately, what we choose to accept of the world determines how we feel about it. The holocaust was bad, really bad; but that doesn't make it the defining trait of humanity. After all, someone made that whole affair end...
I find it sickening that someone can so easily say they hate the world, then try and create a new one that offers no fulfillment. That virtual world is not permanent, it does not endure, but the real world is always going on, even when you turn your back on it.