@ Neil - My online handle is Morbid. Do you think it concerns me, whether or not I am dark inside? Am I really to understand that you are worried for my soul? Please...
Furthermore, if your respect is conditional of not having opinions you disagree with, you can keep it. I don't want it. That is nothing more than thinly veiled attempts at manipulation.
Where Dave at least has something intelligent to say, you present absolutely no content worth any kind of consideration. Instead you really think that the threat of losing (or rather the threat of gaining) your respect will make me change my mind. You really have a very inflated sense of self-importance. Why don't you turn the mirror, take a long hard look, and get over yourself?
@ Dave. Well I am sorry if I disappoint you. It would not be the first time, and it is most likely not the last. I am not Saint Francis of Assisi either, so if you want me as a friend, you will have to live with my failings as a human being. And it would also seem, that I am not alone in taking well meant messages the wrong way either.
I don't understand why you think I am defending myself. I pleaded guilty. That is not a defense. Do I think your sellout is worse than mine? Well, to be frank... I do. I don't buy your argument that a boycott is 100% or nothing.
If that was true, then if I boycott some issue, and I end up giving them a cent, I might as well give them a million dollars? If I buy some product made with child-labour in India, I might as well go to the sweatshop, sign up to be a slavemaster and beat them up and kill them off myself? I don't see that to be true. By purchasing their product, I do so by proxy, yes granted.
But there are levels and grades of complicity. Do to the nature of western democratic capitalism, I have a small degree of complicity in almost everything. Just buying food without supporting something bad is almost impossible. But that doesn't make me throw all abandon into the wind, and revel in it, just because "the product is good".
I do think what iRacing has done is worse than what Starforce do. Destroying peoples lives is worse than destroying their computer. iRacing tried to destroy lives deliberately. Starforce might destroy computers, but it as an unintended side-effect, not the main purpose of action.
There is a big difference, both in lives versus computers, and in intended purpose and unintended side-effect. Furthermore, what I have done gives Protection Technology cents on the dollar. I don't promote them, and even if I did, I would not have any material gain from doing so. I don't even think their product is good. Can you say the same for iRacing?
This is my honest opinion. I think it is important to keep the story of their transgressions alive in the collective memory of the community. I am sorry if you don't agree. I didn't say my piece with the intent to offend - and certainly not to offend YOU. But as so often happens for me with people on this forum, my intent offends anyway.
EDIT: Removed the random ' \ 's that my work computer saw fit to add to the text.
It's only after we've lost everything, that we are free to do anything.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/23/2009 04:17PM by Morbid.