princepawn-gru wrote:Inquiring minds want to know:
** What do you think about spending your free time engaged in fighting?
I don't generally consider playing Myth "fighting", ffa games are more like sports to me, team games more like team sports. Particularly Bacon, which is probably my favorite. Solo/Coop games engage my problem-solving skills more than any violent tendencies. e.g. In myth it's exceedingly rare that you win a level or a game just by being violent, you have to analyze enemy unit's numbers and strength vs. your own and what strategies and tactics will be effective to reach whatever goal one is trying to achieve. In many ways the different abilities and movement rates and attacks of units in Myth make the game similar to a 3D interactive real time chess game.
* What lasting good is done from such endeavor?
What lasting good is done from surfing the web, watching television or movies, from listening to music, from sitting at the beach, from just about any activity considered a leisure activity?
Actually this isn't the right question, as you are assuming that creating lasting good from one's endeavors is a goal everyone is wanting/trying to achieve. The right question is "Should all human activities produce some lasting good"? But of course to answer that you would first have to define "lasting good" and then make the case for WHY one SHOULD want to produce some lasting good.
* Is you mind dulled to violence because you thoughtlessly kill little men on a video screen?
I don't believe so. If I were playing completely immersive virtual reality games where all my senses were involved and it actually _felt_ like I was killing another human I think it would decrease my sensitivity to violent stimuli if I were to engage in those games a lot.
* Is fighting acceptable? Is it civilized?
Computer game "fighting"? Yes. I don't believe it has any correllation to the level of civilization.
* How do you plan to create peace on earth?
I don't have any control over anyone except myself. I try to be a non-violent person, and to raise my kids to think of ways to solve problems and express their feelings that don't involve violence.
* Do you want peace on earth?
Yes.
* Are you a vegetarian? fruitarian? Breatharian?
No. I respect people who choose for moral reasons to restrict the level of violence committed on behalf of their dietary choices, but I am an omnivore.
* Do you care about the life of the thing you consume more than your own wellfare?
That is a silly question. If one cared about the life of the thing being consumed more than one's one than one could never consume any once-living things.
*Have you lived lives before this? were you a medieval warrior
I don't know. If I was ever a medieval warrior I was either a very bad one or none of my combat skills were transferred to this life.
* Are there other planets where medieval battle goes on to this day?
Yes, on the planet of GeekSCAnia
* Are you your body? What happens when your body dies? If you are not your body, then what does death matter?
I don't know. I don't know. Death is at the very least a change and we humans are fairly averse to change, especially when the outcome of the change is unknown. Even if one believes that life in some form continues after Death, the after death life is a different life so if the new life doesn't involve the same friends, family, etc then dying will involve loss. People generally don't like losss.
