From: michaelroyames@hotmail.com
Date: Tue Jun 11 2002 - 09:34:44 MDT
rotten elf wrote:
> how about the old Fidonet philosophy of "everyone
> equally armed ot the teeth and no casualties"?
> doesn't violence take a different meaning in virtual space?
> bloodshed just becomes a mutable image, while mental
> cruelty or limitation becomes entirely devastating.
The "armed to the teeth" part fairly accurately describes the current state of
the world, the "no casualties" part is a pipe dream.
The meaning of violence in virtual space remains identical to the meaning
in physical space. An image of bloodshed is just and image of bloodshed.
Violence is that which causes real harm to a sentience, whether that sentience
be in virtual space or physical.
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