On Mon, 13 Dec 1999 silky@... wrote:

>
> >Let me cut to the chase: If you were in a zone with nothing
> >to hunt, would you continue playing? Would most people
> >continue playing?
>
> I've never seen NOTHING to hunt - ever. I am an extremely patient hunter, I

That was a hypothetical question. :) Since you seemed
reluctant to admit there could be situations where the game
wasn't worth playing, I gave you the question to force a stand
one way or another.

> >I don't see how you can claim it's not attributable to people
> >when everything else is the same and the only differing factor
> >is people. True, they are not deliberately and directly
> >preventing you from finding anything to hunt, but they are
> >doing it indirectly.
>
> Then why are you laying the blame at their feet? That's like complaining

They are a contributing cause to the problem. "Blaming" them
was your way of characterizing it, not mine. It's rather
difficult to solve a problem if you aren't allowed to pinpoint
the causes for fear of being accused of blaming someone or
something. :)

> the roads are clogged during rush hour and it's the other drivers fault -
> it accomplishes nothing - and those folks gotta get to work too.
> Frustrating yes - but it's not THEIR fault.

I'm not saying it's their fault. I'm saying they are a
contributing cause, and therefor one cannot say they are
irrelevant to the problem.

Bad things do not always have malicious intent behind them.
Sometimes they just happen. It's very possible for people to
make all the right decisions and still have things go wrong.
Just because I say people are causing a problem does not mean
I think they are doing it out of maliciousness and need to be
blamed and reprimanded.

--
John H. Kim
kim@...