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by nzp 4478 days ago
Wow, just wow. I'm not exactly a youngster without life experience about what kinds of sleaze bags people can be, but I'm still amazed and shocked when I see the liberties such people allow themselves in what they say or write. That a grown, sane person has such a lack of morals to allow oneself to drop to such levels of absurdity and dishonesty to accuse people of nihilism for giving away something valuable for free to all to use and improve is deeply troubling. This is sociopathic behaviour, plain and simple.

This is about mere games, and I hate to trivialize serious social events by comparing them to such mundane things, but these kinds of drivel always remind me of McCarthy--Welch exchange in the Senate hearings[0]. "Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"... What else can you say to such persons... And yet since they don't have any sense of decency or shame it doesn't bother them when you confront them with their despicable behaviour.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1eA5bUzVjA