Zynga Tries to Avert Potential "Mass Exodus" of Workers

[SciMal]

The actions of your target don't make insults and sadism any less gross.

We obviously subscribe to a slightly different moral basis. Ostensibly you are correct, but in a very abstract fashion. It's not a very practical way to construct a moral and ethical hierarchy on.

Enjoying or otherwise being glad to see people fail is nothing short of cruel. Whoever they are and whatever they've done, you should never celebrate suffering. Apathy is the very least you could do here.

Unsurprisingly we disagree. I think apathy would be much worse. I'd much rather support the vilification of absolutely deplorable business practices than dismiss a situation because bad things have happened.

 

[SciMal]

Supporting the intervention and prevention of criminal activity is not the same thing as enjoying that it needed to be done.

True. It's the fulfillment of a revenge fantasy. Zynga's CEOs will hopefully get their cummuppance and pay through the nose.

A murderer going to gaol isn't a good thing. It's sad that it needed to be done and it's perhaps the best course of action to protect the public and ensure the victim's family the attacker won't harm anyone else. What it isn't is good or joyful.

Aside from possibly colluding the events and the associated emotion, you're taking the abstract viewpoint. It's sad in a hyperbolic, theatrical sort of way where the cause for any pain or discomfort is to be lamented for mere existence.

It's not a practical philosophy to build an ethical structure, though. Well, at least to me it isn't, and I doubt any argument you can conceive of will convince me otherwise.

 

[SciMal]

Revenge and the urge to make others suffer to promote yourself or inflate your own sense of happiness is crude, unnecessary, destructive and causes nothing but suffering.

Well, no. It causes my happiness. Also, I'm merely an observer - the suffering was already occurring. I merely chose sides. My personal urges to see Zynga taken down could not cause them more suffering. I have never played their games, and probably never will. They are not losing a customer or gaining an enemy who has any semblance of power against them.

Harming others or being glad they struggle won't help anyone or encourage peace.

I see peace as unattainable, so this is fine with me.

What it will do is keep humanity killing one another and encourage negative emotions.

As it has been since the dawn of the species, so it will probably remain with us until we evolve beyond the need for resources. My view, anyways.

Hate, revenge and sadism are a weakness, not a trait to consider good or mundane.

If you believe so, I'm not going to dissuade you.

If one person wishes to be unwholesome, returning in kind will only increase that number. Why become that which you condemn?

To me there is only being human. Zynga is human. I am human. There are about 7 Billion other humans. This is getting mighty philosophical.

What high ground do you have to stand on if you act as low as them? None.

There aren't the same tiers to my beliefs. Kudos if yours work, but I haven't found what you're suggesting useful.

 

[weirdee]

I think they would have found a subway sandwich to be a more beneficial severance package.

 

[Tiger Sora]

This is it. Zynga itself has landed a masterful self inflicted death stroke. August 16th, a bit after the markets open their stock will be worthless (0$).
I cant wait to see the news on this site days latter. Zynga declares they're broke.

 

[Evil Smurf]

The irony when all the employees leave to work for Indy devs