the Fire in me

you know, different things make us tick.

occassionally, when my boss reads the news papers, he would comment rather forcefully
"if i were the jugde i will hang them over ten times!"
he was commenting about people who raped their children and people who murder the innocent like children etc.

so that are the things that made him mad.

I am usually cool and unmoved. not that i am uncompassionate but there is no fire about these kind of things in me.

however, something made me tick last night.

I was just browsing through the newspaper when i read about an on-line game WoW-- world of warcraft where one young female player died of a stroke (in real life). she had made some friends all over the world, you know, like people all over the world logged in and played game and developed friendship without having met in flesh. according to the news article, she is a level 60 orc warlock- some kind of achievement for a player, hence i presume there were quite a bit of respect for her perhaps.

anyway, players all over the world were sadden by her death (in real), given that we are people with emotion and feelings. they decided to hold a virtual funeral for her and set a date and time to have the solemn event at one of the game site where the young player used to love. (see picture below)

so, many players made the effort to attend the virtual funeral, bidding farewell to a person they know only in the game but have some form of freindship with.

know what?.........

many of the attendees were killed. murdered. in the game.

they were unarmed as they were attending a social event and were not guarded.

their enemies felt that it was opportune to massively kill them all.

of course according to the rules of the game, it was a battlefield. they were open to attack.

but come on for goodness sake, this is as much a funeral for a real person that died!

who could make a trip to the homeland of that young girl when all her on-line friends are in europe, asia and what nots? the next best practical thing is to organise a virtual procession to say, hey, we will miss you.

but no. NO NO NO. the devil in us had to kill.

I often wonder if I had been too naive to think that people in general are kind and honourable.

I hate it. god damn people who don't have the decency and ethic to put on hold a difference for one damn second. pissed me off so hard.

Errupts the fire in me.