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No man, don't give up freedom on such short-sighted things like "we're better off them banning penis-maps". There are things nobody can imaging right now that a
by zyb09 16y ago
No man, don't give up freedom on such short-sighted things like "we're better off them banning penis-maps". There are things nobody can imaging right now that also will never happen, because the environment is too restrictive for it. See, if Starcraft 1 would have had the same limitation that SC2 now has, the korean esport boom - a totally unexpected event - might have never happened and in effect SC2 might have never been developed.
It's probably silly to argue about ideology and principles in a video game, but this seems to be a trend that manifests itself in all facets of society. It scares me how people are willing to give up freedom, reasoning that it's probably not needed anyways.
- krakensden 16y agoIt's a straw man argument, anyway- I played custom map games for WC3 throughout high school, and never once saw a penis map, race war map, or anything else particularly objectionable. There were a few copyright infringing maps, but most were either blizzard-derivative or bizarre and novel.
- CoryMathews 16y agoWhich warcraft were you playing? it was constantly games where the map was just a nude pic. Really annoying.
- kingkilr 16y agoMaybe this is because me and friends hosted a decent percentage of the games we played, but through thousands of rounds of Footmen Frenzy I've never seen a penis map. Starcraft I had a good deal of "sexy pics" maps, however I don't think I ever ended up in some unintentionally ;)
- krakensden 16y agoUS West- it's possible it was different elsewhere.
- Gormo 16y agoYou make a pretty good argument against a priori restrictions in general. E.g. who knows how amazing our cities would be today if urban development hadn't been forced into a static, prescriptive zoning paradigm for the past 70 years? Too many people think about freedom in terms of individuals' rights in isolation, but its important to recognize that freedom alone encourages the kind of broad variation from which real, substantive improvement emerges, and is the true driver of human progress. It's extremely important to make this point in any and every context in which it's relevant.