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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wolv0rine" data-source="post: 653980" data-attributes="member: 9045">Oh sh*t!  Ummm...I mean...  Nu-uh!  Shut up!  Arsehole!Arsehole!  (There, did they buy that? *whew!*)  *snickers*This is understandable.  I have philosophies of my own that tend to color the way I react.  Most of mine are pretty oddball, too. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />*Nods*  So your posted scenareo was basically an opportunity to vent on a theoretical situation that frustrated you in light of your views.  Perfectly normal, once understood. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Possibly, but I do think that investing some degree of emotional attachment to a character is an important step is being able to role-play them excellently.  You have to identify before you can... step into this other person's shoes.  Especially when this other person (and their shoes) are fictional.  I can relate to Theoretical Gamer's position, I have characters that are practically sancrosact.  Not many, but some.  They are versions of myself, altered or distorted mirrors of myself, and they are more than just pretend people to me because of that.Being a serious non-pacifist myself, I'd likely gut the guy like a fish, and smile all the way to jail (with a fairly decent, and fairly honest, temporay insanity plea readied). <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue    :P"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" />  LOL!  Ohhhhh fun. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  Paradoxes are fun, but highly frustrating to someone like myself who doesn't believe in the logic behind them, for the most part.  And, while I try to be mostly existential about things on the whole, and blase about the majority of stressors found in everyday life that I cannot effect in the Now, I don't think I could maintain the mental stringency to hold fast to a strong philosophy such as yours.  I like to do mental gymnastics, but don't like to maintain them for great lengths of time.  Just makes a mind tired, and I've never been extremely strong on the 'dedication to an ideal' thing.</blockquote>

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