Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-27170788-20160419032145/@comment-70.208.19.228-20160426171545

Calanon Evergreen wrote: 70.208.4.39 wrote: Question is, where do we draw the line? There are plenty of rules and ethics we already impose on public places. By saying you can't go around murdering pepole We are already forcing our ethics upon others. We don't say "it is a public place, so you get to do what ever you want." There has got to be some standard of ethics or else society would desolve. There is a line drawn in this Wiki and in the mod. There are certain boundaries set up which are more than neutral and, for the most part, within everyone's beliefs. Such is the nature of a public environment: balanced and fair to all.

But, with that said, in a somewhat balanced public environment, you simply can't have everyone swing more over to a certain ethical side or stance because you "are offended". I can tell you right now: if you expect the real world (and the Internet) to do or not do something based on your feelings, you are going to get hurt a lot down the road. Because unfortunately, that's not how the world works, so again, you'll either have to grow a thick skin and lead by example, or, turn away entirely. But you cannot force upon people certain ethical standards in a balanced ethical setting such as the Internet, and this mod. It's the sad truth; I don't like it perhaps any more than you do, but it is what it is.

 Elvenking of the Woodland Realm 

Wether it is balanced or not depends on your personal ethics. To a lot of pepole, things that are morally wrong are encouraged while things that are ethically right are viewed as beeing odd, or outside the norm. I am not forcing an ethical standard upon others- as I have said before, if pepole realy want to listen to such garbage, add an option to disable it. Words could be replaced with things like accursed or thieving or wretched, all things that are already said by other NPCs. I don't share your opinion that we can only lead by example- I have seen plenty of pepole push things that I would deem morally wrong or unethical, and often times they succeed. As it has been preveously stated, be the change you want to see in the world.