Monday, March 11, 2013

EVILE


So...

Pie-man owns a Minecraft server. Minecraft is a sandbox indie originally created by the Swedish programmer Markus "Notch" Persson and later developed and published by Mojang. There are many  people on this server. All of these people spend a large chunk of time building amazing structures, such at pyramids with flickering lights or wooden houses built on top of gigantic trees (as you can see here)













A few weeks ago, one of the players (let's call him pie-player) logged on to this said server and destroyed most of these amazing said structures. That time it was an accident, Pie-player was trying to destroy something he built and he accidentally blew up everyone else's. Then, five days after that, an unknown player (lets call him Evil-pie) logged on the server and blew EVERYTHING up, even my wonderful house.  I really liked my house. It had a Lollipop on top of it.

This time the destruction was not an accident.the entire world was completely obliterated. Fortunately both times Pie man had made a backup a few days before. Pie-man was able to clean up Evil-pie's damage.

If you want to join the server, go to www.blockcrafters.cbyte.co and reference this blog


Now...

What is "Evil"?... Is "Evil" just doing something "baaaaaaaaad"? Or is "Evil" hurting someone (mentally or physically) intentionally? Or is it a mix of the two?


As Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore once said "Evil is a strong word" and so it is. You can't really say that to just anybody,very few people are really evil. An evil person who has done a baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad thing intentionally. For example, Hitler was an evil person. As well as the b(insert 1000 a's here)d people, there are the people that don't do bad things intentionally, as Albert Einstein once said:
The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it. The Government of France, for example was almost as evil as Hitler during World War II. They didn't personally kill anyone, but they did ship off many people and allow  to die.

1 comment:

  1. Great post, Alex! I'm glad you backed-up your house. This might be an example of "anonymous-evil," which I think is easier than "just plain evil." In other words, if evil-pie-man had had to walk down the beach in front of everyone and kick down your sandcastle, he/she would not have done it. Too much scrutiny; too much pressure; the good chemicals kick in. But because acting "on a server" can be anonymous, it's easier to be evil. Like in war, it's easier to drop a bomb from a plane than shoot someone with a gun. Now we have drones, where people can kill other people with a joystick from 10,000 miles away. Technology does a lot of good things, but making evil easier isn't one of them, do you think?

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