An anonymous person calling another anonymous person names on Slashdot hardly qualifies as cyberbullying. Perhaps the real irony here is that he first dismisses cyberbullying as nonsense and demands people to grow a thicker skin, but then thinks that he's being targeted for cyberbullying because somebody tells him he's a fucking moron.
Yes it's an argument from ignorance, mostly because the people who are so concerned about "cyberbullying" (dumb term imo) have yet to make any rational arguments for why its so bad that I can attempt to refute.
Probably because you're so fucking stupid that you couldn't identify a rational argument even if it kicked you in the face.
Everyone needs thicker skin, as the whole uproar about this is more a symptom of our continued pussification than any problem endemic to the internet.
Bullying can and often does lead to a lifetime of psychological problems, or even suicide. But hey, who the fuck cares? People just need to grow thicker skin! Instead of doing something about bullies, we should just tell people to have less psychological problems. What an ingenious solution.
Is there any rational reason to think that there would be some horrible slippery slope that would eventually lead to arbitrarily murdering patients without their consent?
Are you not aware of the meaning of the term suicide? Assisted suicide is someone actively working to help kill another person.
Yes, but that's quite different from what you were talking about. There's a difference between murder and assisted suicide.
In this case, there is clear historical precedence of government-led violation of human rights. The US has horribly mistreated disabled people in the past century. The Germans took it to a new level, of course. Those are just the cases I know of off the top of my head. I am certain that a google search would turn up lots of examples. There is now open talk amongst bio-ethicists about the euthanasia of disabled people. In that context, the expectation that legalized suicide would lead to pressure on doctors, patients and families to choose it over palliative care(if not degenerating into less than voluntary situations) is quite likely to be true.
Yes, I get it. Give people the freedom to choose suicide and suddenly all the retards and cripples will be sent to the gas chambers.
Deriding the important efforts to benefit those stricken by such problems(and this is more than MMORPGs for quadriplegics; think vehicle control and tele-presence technologies) in favor of simply killing them is short-sighted.
Please point out where I have ever advocated killing anyone.
Besides, legal euthanasia opens up a whole new can of worms. Couple it with HMO-style thinking and the history lessons of the last century, and it's easy to see why disabled people protest it. They've been on the receiving end of that slippery slope before.
Yeah, giving people the freedom to chooce is such a horribly slippery slope.
Please climb down from your ivoty tower and get a grip on reality. Life isn't some video game where you aren't allowed to "cheat" by taking the "easy way out," and this isn't an avenue for your intellectual and moral grandstanding. If someone wants to pull the plug on themselves, it should be their choice.
And before you knock this "social life" too much, consider how many people spend the majority of their time in WoW or EVE chatting or helping friends, completely by their own choice.
I hope you realize how absurd it is to compare WoW with laying in bed for the rest of your life, unable to move.
So what? I'm not them. If they are comfortable laying in bed for the rest of their lives, that's their decision. But just because they're okay with it doesn't mean everyone else should be forced to do the same.
Virtual reality is cool and everything, but legalizing euthanasia is far more important. I know I'd rather be six feet under than lay in a bed for the next 50-70 years. That's torture, with or without virtual reality.
So you don't want to waste your life tuning settings (which really means that your game's performance is not satisfactory and you have to fiddle around with the settings, defrag your hard-disk and update your drivers), but you don't like it that the PS3 and 360 don't allow you to tune settings (which is of course completely unnecessary with consoles)?
The fact that you don't need to spend hours tweaking settings on a 360 is a good thing.
Like it or Hate it, the Wii has more staying power than any of the other consoles, graphics or not.
I'd appreciate it if you didn't present completely subjective opinions as hard fact. I'm buying a 360 next week because it has tons of released and upcoming games that interest me. The Wii has exactly one (Metroid Prime 3), so the Wii really doesn't interest me and neither does its controller.
I love my 360. And someday I'll buy a (lower cost) PS3 just for the eye candy. But when I want to play a game, I keep on going back to the Wii even after having it for quite a while.
I really question the logic of buying a 360 and PS3 if you don't intend to play any games with them. There are cheaper alternatives for playing HD-DVD and Blu-Ray discs.
As would I. All of Africa doesn't have a fraction of the sand that's perpetually stuck in the vaginas of Slashdot moderators. I'm guessing that in the near future everyone will just be modded -1 troll by default.
Life is an exciting place to be experienced with courage, verve and awareness, not moped over in search of some intellectual prize worth nothing unless accompanied by a bit of wool-pulling among the assembled.
So life is the same for everyone and movies should not deviate from our mundane reality?
ID is not science at all, and you're using the usual copout method of arbitrarily making both sides of the issue seem identically stupid. You don't want to have a real opinion.
Oh, right. So the ESRB or any other rating body should be allowed to think "those guys are assholes, we won't approve their game"? What a load of shit.
Not the first time something like this has happened in Sweden. In Finland the Ombudsman for Minorities submitted an investigation request to the police because he suspected that a blogger had said something racist and was therefore plotting genocide, nuclear war and the conquest of a small galaxy. I don't think anything came of it, though.
Thoughtcrime is already a reality, while reality is something that's defined by the elite.
I don't have a problem with console manufacturers not allowing AO games since they are, to my understanding, mostly pornographic. The problem is that Manhunt 2 got rated AO by the ESRB.
Apparently it's also impossible for people to stop abusing the term "ethnic cleansing." In a few years it will be an "ethnic cleansing" if the police arrests a black person.
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The fact that I got modded troll and he got modded +4 pretty clearly illustrates what Slashdot thinks about bullying. Fucking pathetic.
An anonymous person calling another anonymous person names on Slashdot hardly qualifies as cyberbullying. Perhaps the real irony here is that he first dismisses cyberbullying as nonsense and demands people to grow a thicker skin, but then thinks that he's being targeted for cyberbullying because somebody tells him he's a fucking moron.
I'll interpret that as "I have no idea how to respond, but I have to say something."
Probably because you're so fucking stupid that you couldn't identify a rational argument even if it kicked you in the face.
Bullying can and often does lead to a lifetime of psychological problems, or even suicide. But hey, who the fuck cares? People just need to grow thicker skin! Instead of doing something about bullies, we should just tell people to have less psychological problems. What an ingenious solution.
I can't believe this shit got modded +4.
User error cannot explain the high failure rate of 360s.
Is there any rational reason to think that there would be some horrible slippery slope that would eventually lead to arbitrarily murdering patients without their consent?
Yes, but that's quite different from what you were talking about. There's a difference between murder and assisted suicide.
Yes, I get it. Give people the freedom to choose suicide and suddenly all the retards and cripples will be sent to the gas chambers.
Please.
Please point out where I have ever advocated killing anyone.
Yeah, giving people the freedom to chooce is such a horribly slippery slope.
Please climb down from your ivoty tower and get a grip on reality. Life isn't some video game where you aren't allowed to "cheat" by taking the "easy way out," and this isn't an avenue for your intellectual and moral grandstanding. If someone wants to pull the plug on themselves, it should be their choice.
I hope you realize how absurd it is to compare WoW with laying in bed for the rest of your life, unable to move.
So what? I'm not them. If they are comfortable laying in bed for the rest of their lives, that's their decision. But just because they're okay with it doesn't mean everyone else should be forced to do the same.
Virtual reality is cool and everything, but legalizing euthanasia is far more important. I know I'd rather be six feet under than lay in a bed for the next 50-70 years. That's torture, with or without virtual reality.
So you don't want to waste your life tuning settings (which really means that your game's performance is not satisfactory and you have to fiddle around with the settings, defrag your hard-disk and update your drivers), but you don't like it that the PS3 and 360 don't allow you to tune settings (which is of course completely unnecessary with consoles)?
The fact that you don't need to spend hours tweaking settings on a 360 is a good thing.
I'd appreciate it if you didn't present completely subjective opinions as hard fact. I'm buying a 360 next week because it has tons of released and upcoming games that interest me. The Wii has exactly one (Metroid Prime 3), so the Wii really doesn't interest me and neither does its controller.
I really question the logic of buying a 360 and PS3 if you don't intend to play any games with them. There are cheaper alternatives for playing HD-DVD and Blu-Ray discs.
As would I. All of Africa doesn't have a fraction of the sand that's perpetually stuck in the vaginas of Slashdot moderators. I'm guessing that in the near future everyone will just be modded -1 troll by default.
I've only seen the original Solaris partially, but Soderbergh's version is one of my favorite movies.
So life is the same for everyone and movies should not deviate from our mundane reality?
I don't think God involves himself in earthly matters, which means that worshipping him is rather pointless, and he probably doesn't even care.
ID is not science at all, and you're using the usual copout method of arbitrarily making both sides of the issue seem identically stupid. You don't want to have a real opinion.
Oh, right. So the ESRB or any other rating body should be allowed to think "those guys are assholes, we won't approve their game"? What a load of shit.
This only applies to people who are already unstable, assuming that video games actually have that kind of an effect on people.
Not the first time something like this has happened in Sweden. In Finland the Ombudsman for Minorities submitted an investigation request to the police because he suspected that a blogger had said something racist and was therefore plotting genocide, nuclear war and the conquest of a small galaxy. I don't think anything came of it, though.
Thoughtcrime is already a reality, while reality is something that's defined by the elite.
I don't have a problem with console manufacturers not allowing AO games since they are, to my understanding, mostly pornographic. The problem is that Manhunt 2 got rated AO by the ESRB.
Apparently it's also impossible for people to stop abusing the term "ethnic cleansing." In a few years it will be an "ethnic cleansing" if the police arrests a black person.
I don't know.