Have you met the internet? If anything, it's shown us that we're really not nice people (as a race).
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Have you met the internet? If anything, it's shown us that we're really not nice people (as a race).
Mark CMG
Creative Mountain Games
No doubt that groups of people can do wicked things (and the Internet can amplify this effect) but individuals look for ways to be good because there is a chemical reaction in the brain that feels like a reward. It's largely why the message board reputation system works so well, because it feels good to give, and that feeling in turn assists in keeping us, as a community, less aggressive with one another.
No doubt that groups of people can do wicked things (and the Internet can amplify this effect) but individuals look for ways to be good because there is a chemical reaction in the brain that feels like a reward. It's largely why the message board reputation system works so well, because it feels good to give, and that feeling in turn assists in keeping us, as a community, less aggressive with one another.
This is an entirely different discussion (and it might be a great one to start in the OT forum) but I disagree very much. I feel the internet has provided a lens, and we can finally see how unpleasant most of us actually are. People *like* hurting each other. And the minority that doesn't looks on, bewildered, and uncomprehendingly. We're not a nice species (not that any species is, in truth).
On the flip side, the generosity of people is also showcased. I know I've been priveleged to benefit from that, and I'm personally in a fortunate position. But I think that, although they often support, on balance the intrawebs attack more than they support; and usually without information. The web is more concerned with its power, its ability to "punish", than whether that punishment is just.
Hey, I'm interested in this discussion. It has piqued me. I don't think it belongs in this thread though - fancy starting a thread in the Media Lounge about it? Having been 'public' on the web for 14 years (that's longer than most websites), I've been on BOTH sides of this several times over. I know how en-masse generosity and punishment feel. It's definitely a subject I have an insight into.
Mark CMG
Creative Mountain Games
I think it is tangentially related but far enough removed that I see you point in wanting to steer back to a tighter conversation here.
Please do or just cull these posts from here to such a thread, or quote or recap them if you like.
Nellisir
Hero
I'm not going to start a new thread, but I disagree that people like hurting each other, or that most of us are "unpleasant".
Historically, we've been very mean to each other. We war with and oppress each other all the time. I think we're getting better, but we still do it - a lot!
And the news here right now is about how a major newspaper (I say 'a' but I hear it's the biggest one in the world) is profiting from saying mean things about a politician's deceased father.
Individually, we can be great. But as a while, humanity seems to be pretty unpleasant to itself!
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Agreed. The settings' details are Product Identity, after all.
The way I see it, both individual and aggregate human behavior covers a spectrum from awful to awesome. There is no situation so bad that that individuals can't make worse. And sometimes, its can be quite humbling to see how a community comes together.
Well, humans are kind of geared to divide the world into Us and Them. And any of Them, are fair game, it usually seems.
See above. A community is an Us. It is great when a community comes together, but not surprising. When one community sticks its collective neck out for another community, however, is a remarkable event. Would that it were not so remarkable.
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