I blog, therefor I don’t flame.

This time I’d like to bring an example of somebody writing a guide, but simply being too conservative.

This is my reply to his post, which I won’t put on the official forums out of fear of offending him directly, but merely express my opinion:

Barvradl’s guide really is great, except for a tiny little flaw.

[quote]Yes, but we aren’t talking about a nationality here, we are talking about a race, a race that is highly subsceptible to changes in its enviroment.[/quote]

True, African Americans did become white. And I suppose the reason for environment change really is religious views.

[quote]The Draenei are more than a ‘group’ of Eredar now, the Draenei are their own race, they differ from what they used to look like by quite a great deal now due to the amount of special racial abilities the Light has given them, such as the Gift of the Naaru.[/quote]

Absolutely, all native Americans are still animists, none of them have converted to Christianity (not even one) since Europeans (inherently all of them were good Christians, of course) were responsible for the annihilation of most of them (directly and indirectly). (Jared Diamond, “Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed”)

[quote]Draenei society is based on integrity and unity, notice that there are literally no rebels amongst their own people? Draenei view eachother as equal and respect the opinions of others.[/quote]

Well, yeah, believing in the light or not isn’t an “opinion”, it must be genetic or something, the same way Judaism is genetic.

[quote]Also, Draenei are not humans, so you cannot apply human morality and human behaviour to a race that is incredibly different to ours. [/quote]
[quote]It just isn’t plausible for a race, such as the Draenei, a race that is based on integrity and honour to suddenly revoke the teachings of the Light after it is directly responsible for their own existence.[/quote]

As I see you are not reasoning this with your human morality, I can see your point. Indeed, and it isn’t possible for a child to turn against their parent(s). (as we don’t see in King Lear of course) Patricide never happened in history, and people have never left the Holy Light in the Lore and have never done anything “evil” to anyone else (as we all know Arthas never left the Holy Light)

Forums! They make you evil!

The idea is, in an email, I can be mean to somebody, but I’m not trying to prove anything to anyone but that person. Fine, go yell at them, what do you do? They’ll get a little mad. You can make really silly points, what would they do? They’ll get a little mad.

On a forum, however, you don’t just talk to that person, no, if you start being a little hostile towards them, they’ll immediately try to (a) prove you wrong and (b) prove everyone else on the forum that they’re not wussies causing you to bash them even harder, and vice versa, and the cycle goes on and on.

I figured, the only points you can make on a forum are simply those that get you just about… nowhere. Disagreements over very minor things tend to end up as huge pointless debates resorting to “yo momma” and trying to find pages on Wikipedia to prove everyone wrong or just finding grammatical errors, as if that magically makes them wrong.

I’m sick of forums, sorry. It divides us, it makes us want to kill each other and it exposes everyone’s stupidity (including your own by even trying to read that stuff).

Sorry, I quit.