Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World]

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On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Ling wrote:

> Here are some of my insights into society.  They're very crude, cynical,
> impassionate and probably misled.  But I've only lived a couple of
> decades.
> 
> - A higher proportion of people in muds can and will be jerks publically
>   infront of strangers.
> - Why does the same not apply to life?

the anonymity of the net plays in here too.  It's hard to know who it is 
that is being a jerk.

> - Because of comeback, because they're receive pain either physically o
>   mentally.  I do not go around clubbing someone I don't like for fear of
>   arrest.
> - But mudders get 'arrested' too!
> - Yes but it is a persona being arrested.  Anyway, there are plenty of
>   other muds to go piss on.
> - So get muds to form an informal mud alliance where someone blacklisted
>   on one mud will find life difficult on other muds.
> - This might work, difficulty in implementing due to the way people can
>   change their id so easily.

McCarthyism anyone?


-Greg