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19408: RE: [MUD-Dev] Immersiveness - good or bad?
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From: Matt Mihaly <the_logos@achaea.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 09:46:50 +0000 (GMT)
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
On Tue, 8 May 2001, John Buehler wrote:
> Consumer tasks are useful because they ensure that we, as members of
> a community, sate our desire for our personal desires. Excessive
> need for personal desires is not a Good Thing, and immersing one's
> self in an electronic game for hours on end is an excessive need for
> a personal desire. Just like an addiction to a drug sates a need
> for a personal desire, and is not a Good Thing.
I personally can't imagine the point in doing anything that isn't a
personal desire. I don't believe it's even possible. Mother Theresa
had a personal desire to help other people. She presumably felt quite
good about it. Some people presumably feel quite good about playing
games. I don't see a fundamental difference.
I completely reject the notion that I exist to serve anyone or any
group of beings or things. My gratification is of the utmost
importance in existence which is, of course, my creation anyway.
I realize you probably disagree, but I feel the need to chime in
whenever anyone starts throwing about the idea of universal/objective
morality.
--matt
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