I have had many arguments on Guild Wars. Everything from philosophy and ethics to religion and morality. However I have come across individuals who don't exactly seem to be the sharpest tools in the shed and seem to think if they scream their ideas repeatedly they are right. I would like to note I am not a troll. Last argument I had was over scammers.
Now this person I was arguing with was an idiot in my book. The argument started simple enough. It was some guy offering to buy any dye for 90 gold in pre-searing Fort Ranik. Now some player comes along and starts yelling to everyone that he is a scammer. It was a female monk. First thing I do is whisper her to be quiet and leave others trying to make money alone. Not: I am not the one offering to buy dye. She says something along the lines of "He is a scammer and everyone must know and that dye is worth more in post do not sell here". I reply that he is not a scammer, merely someone trying to make gold.
My argument for this is that buying from someone who does not know the true value of an item is not wrong. Example: Suppose you went to a pawn shop or a garage sale and you find something like an antique or other item that you know it is easily worth 500 dollars but the seller is only asking 50. You wouldn't tell the seller its worth 500 and that you will give them that much for it. If you do you are an idiot. Although while not saying this to her I would have been more passive in doing this and only buy from single players in explorable zones or by whispering identified newbs and child gamers when they are found to have dye.
She argues that I am a scammer and am basically evil for it. She continues to scream that this guy is a scammer while I try to shut her up. After the third time of telling her to stop being an emo and shutup I tell the guy to go somewhere else and that he can't buy here with this one around.
The argument then begins to heat up. Now I know my opponent was not a bright person, since she would repeatedly attempt to mock yell words by capitalizing all the letters in it. Example: "I am RIGHT scamming is WRONG and your WRONG". I tell her again that I am no scammer merely what I like to call a Passive Exploitive Situationalist. If an oppertunity presents itself its best to take it before someone else does, but one should not intentionally create situations such as this. There is nothing wrong with buying a dye from a noob or child player who doesn't know its value.
My defenition of noob: An idiotic player who prefers not to think for himself and be told everything or a player who will ask someone a question before trying to find the answer on their own. I believe if the means are available you should try to find answers on your own and only ask others when you have no other way to get an answer since many people will lie because it either benefits them (altough this is not always a bad thing) or they simply enjoy lieing (these people I dispise the most since they have no reasoning or logic behind their actions). Definiton of child gamer: A player who is not mature, who expects everything to be handed to them, and whines when things don't go in their favor. There is nothing wrong with exploiting an identified child gamer (or a gamer with the mind of a child) because they are selfish and only see their own benefit as being important, most of them are whinos, and most think way to highly of themselves IMHO. I believe that society teaches kids the wrong things anyway, these days they are taught they should have everything handed to them and that world is nothing but good (I hate people who try to sheild their children from every single thing they perceive as evil, potentially "corrupting their child's impressionable mind", or is a threat to their own values) and that they are capable of doing anything they want when they get older, they aren't what you can do is always restricted in some form be it financial, law, or simply personal ability. Its better to teach them now that the world of is full of people who will expoit them for their own gain rather than suddenly shock them into reality.
She then tells me that scamming is the same as stealing and all stealing is wrong. At this point I see an oppertunity to trip her. I reply "What if someone were starving to death and had no money their only option could be to steal". She says "Situational ethics don't apply here"
I say "I know but you said all". She then acts as if I didn't say that, kinda funny on my part.
I also tell her their is nothing wrong with stealing if who you are stealing from does not realise it or later realise who has done it. I then say I know you are right but I am right aswell. She responds "Both of us can't be right your WRONG". I say "Right and wrong are relative. Everyone is right in their own mind. Hitler thought he was right IN HIS OWN MIND, but no one else thought so". Note: I do not normally capitalize entire words as such, the reason for it was so that what was being said was not twisted or only part of the sentence was taken out of context and to stress I am no Hitler sympathizer (people have a tendancy of interpetting words beyond their original meaning). She then ends the conversation by basically saying "I am right you are wrong, shutup". Then she ignores me.
I apologize for ranting. Please tell me what you think of exploiting unkowledgeable players.
M
