>I think this is the predominant way of thinking right now, and
>I think it's going to change in the next decade.

You've concinced me, I think you are gonna be dead right about this one.
Particularly after the spectre of legal recourse for in-game injustices was
raised today on this list. Yup, it's going to happen, and yeah, I think
after a very painful adolecence, virtual communities will develop to the
point you describe.

Virtually (yuck yuck) no one "gets" what is going on out here, and after the
virtual community matures in it's expectations and a few civil lawsuits
establish precident we are going to see professionally run virtual worlds
that don't cater to adolecents (of any age) need to vandalize and predate on
everything and everyone they can. Heh, and it will cost $39.95 a month and I
bet a bunch of people on this list will pay it :o)

Tszaaz/Tengu