In my last entry I began to delve deeper into the problems plaguing online Gor, beginning with how people play too much on others' RT emotions and also rely on their own RT emotions to the point that they are letting the emotional baggage from RT dictate what they can and cannot do and how they should act. There is another thing that is plaguing online Gor these days. That thing is accountability or a lack thereof.
On many homepages and message boards nowadays it has been said that you WILL be held accountable for your words and as far as with thoughtposts, the saying goes "you post it you own it." And yet I had seen a case of one person posting a list of people who are no longer welcome in his Home (Free or slave) because of how they act and he got ripped for it. Now he is making those people accountable for their actions, moreso as a warning that the person in question will do the same thing in the future and yet there are those saying he is in the wrong. Now, I am all for a second chance, but it is when the person ABUSES that chance constantly that the line has to be drawn somewhere. This is a case of people having their cake and eating it too, as all too often we HEAR about holding people accountable for their actions and when one person actually does it many are like "Well you cannot do that."
To use another example from what I had seen in my own real life, it is like my roommate who said that his job is stressing him out and he is considering just turning in the keys to the company van and walking away because his brother who works with him is causing the most stress. Now, my roommate's brother asked him if he was actually thinking of doing such and when he said that he was indeed thinking of doing such his brother moaned and whined. My roommate is accountable for his actions, yet it is his brother messing up and not being accountable because of certain things. I use that as an example of how we say that accountability should be paramount and yet when one person does something to hold another accountable that person is being made out to tbe the bad guy. We ALL meed to be held accountable for our words and deeds, whether here in Gor or in our own real lives.
Again, these words and opinions are mine and I am always open for a discussion on these words among adults and not let this be a big argument as I had seen many develop into nowadays. My Messengers are ALWAYS open for discussion.
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Excellent points, Maximus. I'd like to reiterate, however, that accountability extends to all on Gor. Few people have kept their hands clean in the accountability department.
This last week I came across a quote dealing with honor which I honestly think bears repeating throughout Gor
“Honor is like an island, rugged and without shores; once we have left it, we can never return” - Nicholas Boileau
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