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I share the same attitude as Zyn on this matter. It's precisely this "win at all costs" mentality that enables RMT. If people did not feel it necessary to define themselves as individuals/players by the items they possess, then there would be no RMT because no one would need to buy gil in order to buy the items to make themselves feel more complete or adequate. Does better gear improve your gameplay? Absolutely. But you can still be one hell of an effective player without having the most sought after gear.
My attitude towards the way I play this game has always been this: Which is going to last longer after this game is no longer active; people remembering the "1337" gear I had or people remembering the way I played the game. This is the very essence of the honor that Zy referred to.
I am also of the opinion that once you adopt the mentality of your enemies (i.e. it's okay to steal gear or it's okay to blow up innocent civilizian) you've already taken the first and the largest step to becoming that which you are fighting against. Does this mean I think Kunel is equal to an RMT? Of course not, but it's a very slippery slope. Once you do it the first time, it becomes progressively easier to rationalize. Pretty soon you can justify doing it to a legit player that you just don't like or hardly know. Before you know it, you're doing it all the time to virtually anyone you can con. Just ask anyone who has used cheats/hacks on a regular basis in the past.
I am not a Christian, but perhaps Zyn and others who agree with her are. Being as such, there is one Christian doctrine that I do have a great deal of respect for (when it's upheld) and that is the doctrine that all sin is equal in the eyes of God. There is no distinction between the degree of the sin nor to whom the inequity is performed against. Even if you're not a Chrisitian, the consistency principle of this moral premise carries a lot of weight because sin could just easily be replace with the breaking of a secular law or any other religious/moral code and the absolution of its wrongness is not dimished in the least.
I respec tand acknowledge this attitude and by no means disagree with its positives. However, i can not stand idley by and watch the same thing happen over and over when odviously all other means of prevention have fallen face flat in the dirt. Cus seriously, has any other method that any player has done effected even as little as this simple thing?
I understand where your comeing from also when you say that once you start theres no stoping in regaurds to the slipery slope. What i like to do is fight fire with fire. I see nothing wrong with going as far to stop somone from doing something to you as doing the same thing back to them. You crossed no boundries, you only matched their hand.
Ya im not the nicest person in the world, but why take shit from people, cus its the politically correct thing to do? screw that, deffend yourself.