| From: | James Dening james@************.force9.co.uk |
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| Subject: | Moral uplift.....AKA Gossard for the soul.... |
| Date: | Wed, 25 Aug 1999 11:17:51 +0100 |
>> games
>> to uplift my soul, or to release my moral potential - I do it for fun. To
>> enhance my moral potential, I discuss ethics, or read philosophy
>>
>> What does he do to improve his cooking skills - watch football???
>>
>Hey, watch it there. While I don't follow this attitude, I know plenty of
>people who don't like the game for this very reason. They like to play
>heroes. Shadowrunners aren't necessarily heroes. They're guys who commit
>illegal acts to destroy corporations that could be bad or could be good.
Fair enough, but that's not what Tarek said - he said "...see any moral
potential." That's a different thing to "...wanted to play one of the good
guys."
Sorry, but if you are trying to improve your own karma (*really* bad choice
of word...;) )..sorry, lemme try again - if you're trying to enhance your
own morality/become a better person etc. by playing RPGs, then
you're a <insert nasty phrase here>. The whole point of that sort
of thing is that you do it in RL - it's the flipside to being nasty in
an RP, 'cos I *don't* want to do it in RL.
If someone doesn't like SR 'cos they like playing good guys then
a) Fair enough.
b) Ask the GM to *make* them goodguys - Docwagon team, Secret
Service squad, Lone Star - come on, the list is *ENDLESS*...
c) Still fair enough, but personally, I *like* being able to break the law
without RL penalties!!!
J.
