Their argument about the technology is perfectly fine in their personal context. The point at which it gets batty is when they presume every single person is li

Their argument about the technology is perfectly fine in their personal context. The point at which it gets batty is when they presume every single person is like them and will suffer the same consequences. Personally, I feel terrified any time someone raises an argument resting upon the idea of homogeneous people. I'm me and you're you. You don't like VR and find it isn't for you. That's fine. There's this plant I can't eat - I'm not allergic, it just tastes awful to me. They say it's good for you, but I just can't stand it. I also can't socialize around sports - the kind where you sit down in front of a large screen and watch a game, whether at home or in an establishment serving food and drinks. I've never been able to understand this model. Of course that's the problem - you can't understand it, you just get it or you don't. And I don't. So I don't do that. I do like MMORPGs though. I've made a lot of friends who I know just by their self-picked handle. For some of them I don't even know what they look like at all. I've met with a few of them though, they're nice. Spending 5 or 6 hours per day in a virtual world might be bad for you. Or it might be all right for you. Depends on the precise you. It's definitely not "wrong", in a moral or legal sense (IANAL, IMBW). It's wrong when you give up on someone, or let them down, or tell a lie, or desert them ... when you hurt them. The one thing you can say about all people is that they're different. When you look at them, they look all the same, but the more you look, the more different they are. Kind of like grains of sand. further reading/tl;dr: http://xkcd.com/1314/ http://xkcd.com/1314/ http://xkcd.com/1311/ http://xkcd.com/1311/ http://xkcd.com/1289/ http://xkcd.com/1289/ http://xkcd.com/603/ http://xkcd.com/603/ http://bit.ly/U7tyNe http://bit.ly/U7tyNe