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From: Jeff Kesselman <jeffk@tenetwork.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Mon, 09 Jun 1997 17:47:32 -0700
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
At 05:16 PM 6/9/97 PST8PDT, you wrote:
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>It didn't. Ever. Instead it would eat *almost* all the guppies and
>leave 5 or 6 alive. Over the succeeding weeks and months those few
>would breed and repopulate the school back to their former numbers.
>The Pirahna would then go on a guppy binge and eat *almost* all of
>them. This repeated, again and again and again, year after year. The
>Pirahna go big and fat. The guppies gradually bred for speed and
>agility, but never eluded decimation.
>
>I see Wizards in MUDs quite similarly even if the weapons are
>different.
Hmm... I'd argue that this in fact supports my original contetnion.. that
true power brings responsability.
That fish was VERY responsible in his "shephearding" of the guppies in
order to insure a food supply.
Motivations are, to a degree, irellevent. Those who have great power and
little responsibility can quickly foul their own space and kill themselves...
JK
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