Elimination

[Kakashi on crack]

You've just been given a button, it will remove everyone who has trolled an online video game in the last three years from existance, their legacy/who they were to people will remain intact, but everything about them, their gamertags, posts, relations, real-life jobs, -EVERYTHING- will be completely erased from the face of the earth. This choice of whether you do this or not lies in your hands now... Complete and utter cold, calculated, systematic, non-bias genocide of trolls.

Do you press the button?

EDIT from post below: meh, I wouldn't press the button, its just one of those questions that popped up in my head XD

EDIT EDIT: even trolls contribute to society in their own way.

 

[ultrachicken]

What? Fuck no. That's insane.

 

[The Stonker]

Why should I ever destroy someone because he did a little joke?
Disgusting, have a bit of a humor for your self, even if some trolls do cross the line, then nothing justifies such radical causes.
P.s. There are things worse then death.

 

[DanielBrown]

No, I would not press the button. Trolls doesn't bother me that much.

 

[Kakashi on crack]

meh, I wouldn't press the button, its just one of those questions that popped up in my head XD

EDIT: even trolls contribute to society in their own way.

 

[ultrachicken]

meh, I wouldn't press the button, its just one of those questions that popped up in my head XD

EDIT: even trolls contribute to society in their own way.

You should edit your original post with your opinion if you don't want to be hounded any more.

 

[Nouw]

As I say all the time, Karma will get their sorry ass it's own way.

 

[Nouw]

No. I would not.

As I say all the time, Karma will get their sorry ass it's own way.

Lul at the irony of looking forward to someone 'getting their own'. Shouldn't you wish everyone, regardless of their past, be blessed if you believe in karma? Or is it just a 'you're mean to me, so you will get your butt kicked on day' sorta thing for you?

I guess so... kinda.

For me it's just a simple system that works like this.
Good Deed=In the future, regardless of when, that good deed will return to you in a different form.
Bad Deed=Something bad will happen to you the same way as above.

Except not in the same way obviously (give money, you won't necessarily get money) like an example of Karma getting back at me is a girl I like now goes out with my friend. I don't feel bad (anymore ) but I deserved it somehow. Note that the girl is my friend too...

Kinda get's me thinking when it starts in your life. Probably when you have free-will and you know what you're doing.

 

[smithy_2045]

I don't really want to eliminate myself.

 

[VanQ]

I don't really want to eliminate myself.

Exactly this, even I have had fun trolling people online occasionally. Some people deserve it and others just set themselves up so perfectly that I can't resist.

 

[Katherine Kerensky]

Eh, I wouldn't press the button, but I'd sure as hell make them know that I have such a thing at my disposal, and use that to force them to become better people.
Those who become better would not be effected by it in a worst case button-pressing scenario.

 

[voetballeeuw]

No way in hell. Why would I kill that many people? There's no point to it, just because they're a dick in a video game doesn't mean they're vile people.

 

[Whitenail]

Heck no, some trolls can make a match more enjoyable and I hardly see how posting goatse and freekilling in jail-break warrants the complete erasing of their life.

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

Of course I would press the button. It isn't because I hate trolls (though I don't care for them) or out of some misguided sense of helping the world along. It is far simpler than that.

If I had this power and I never used it, then I may as well have never had the power in the first place. I would press the button, thus wiping from the earth greater than 99% of people who have ever used the internet (because, if you are honest with yourselves, you know that you are all inclined to troll from time to time). Not for the world. Not for the internet. Not for humanity. For me.

But to finally fulfill my desire to impact the world at large in some meaningful way. Because no one ever remembers the guy who didn't press the button.

 

[Nouw]

snip

But if karma is about receiving what you put out, shouldn't you still wish the best for everyone?

For example: if a man runs you over and breaks your leg on purpose (no idea why. Roll with me on this, lol) shouldn't you not wish any bad thing to happen to them, because doing so means you are projecting ill will and negativity and will thus receive those back?

It can be selfish, too. For if you only do good so good will return to you, didn't you do it purely for your own gain? That would mean you receive negative karma back, right? So the best thing to do in the eyes of karma is to be completely selfless and not care if anything good ever happens to you.

It's all so confusing!

The first one is correct I guess, but instead of thinking 'I hope that guy gets it' you might think 'That guy is going to get it.' I know it might not be any better but at least it's not wishing .

Have you ever heard of the saying 'You don't give to receive, you give for the joy of giving' or similar? Basically that. You could give away all your money to charity, open your house to the homeless and think 'I'm going to be hailed as a saint' and all you'd get are a bunch of bums in your house stealing your property.

You just do good deeds for the joy of doing good deeds, of course every now and then you might expect to get something back but whether it backfires or just gives it back in a lesser value is beyond me.

You've given me a deeper perspective to this, thanks!

 

[Xojins]

No, because trolling is fun sometimes.

 

[Nouw]

You don't give to receive, you give for the joy of giving.

But that would mean part of the reason you give is because it makes you joyful.

So the only way to be really good with karma is to hate giving, but do it anyway...

o.o

Mind = blown.

Yes it would but that joy isn't from knowing you're going to receive something, it's from the happiness from others. Right? Right?

 

[Aeshi]

Yes (Don't suppose I can get it to do "people I don't like" as well?)

 

[El Poncho]

That would include me so no

 

[Nouw]

You don't give to receive, you give for the joy of giving.

But that would mean part of the reason you give is because it makes you joyful.

So the only way to be really good with karma is to hate giving, but do it anyway...

o.o

Mind = blown.

Yes it would but that joy isn't from knowing you're going to receive something, it's from the happiness from others. Right? Right?

I don't know anymore. This is all too much for my brain!

Well, being nice doesn't hurt anyone, and if it makes someone's day brighter, who cares why you did it. If it makes you happy to bring a little joy to someone else, everyone's a winner!

Yeah. I like that. =D

Let's keep it that way, [sub][sub]To an extent =P[/sub][/sub] nice discussion by the way. *Hi Fives