Are We Evil?

[Gryphin]

I think you may recall, I won't glass a planet. I will only capture them.

I find even though it is no more than a bunch of 1s an zeros I still can't get into it.

[oleg]

I don't want to get into another A-bomb discussion, thank you.

As to the original question, what is evil ? I had a relative died of cancer recently. Does it makes cancer cells evil ? But humans are not mindless cells, you say ! Are you sure ? Even if humans have free will - it will be debated forever - does that makes humanity as whole a conscious force for good ? Or are our moral dilemas no more than Brownian motion of tiny cells in a suicadal cancer devouring the life on the planet ?

[Wardad]

ask someone who has done it for real...
...ask the Alien Agent...

[Loser]

I like to avoid genocide, just for economic reasons. I've never played it Gryphin's way, but I may have to try that soon.

In a TDM/FQM game recently I was trying to beat the Rage down enough that they'd surrender. Yeah, the Rage. Surrender. So that didn't happen. But in the process I tried to take their homeworld in Tac combat (High-Med TDM is being difficult, so I'm using Tac)

It had 16 billion on it, and I had two ships of one hundred troops each. Just like expecting the Rage to surrender once I had ten times their score I expected that many troops could take a homeworld. Well, that many troops can't take and FQM homeworld.

The first ship dropped it's troops and they just went away. Dang militia ate them and asked for seconds.

So spent the next twenty-two turns pelting the world with PPB from orbit. This killed about twelve billion Rage, but allowed my troops to take the planet. The Resupply Depot survived the orbital bombardment, so I got just about everything I wanted.

Gryph, would you practice the wholesale slaughter of billions prior to a troop landing?

[tesco samoa]

in one game i play an empire who only gas. as it is their culture and background to do that.

[Renegade 13]

What we'd do in a game, and what we would do in real life are two entirely separate things. Just because at times I tell my ships to bombard an alien homeworld with APB, doesn't mean I could do anything like that in real life. I couldn't plan to kill someone, not unless they had done something absolutely horrible to me, or my family and friends. Then I would kill them. But I guess what I'm trying to say is that just because you'd do something in a game, doesn't mean you'd do it if given the choice, in real life.

[Cipher7071]

This topic from a guy whose chosen name is 'Atrocities.' Twinges of guilt? Or has he just been smoking mother nature and contemplating his navel?

Are chess players evil for playing chess?

[ January 03, 2004, 16:05: Message edited by: Cipher7071 ]