Reality is the new escape

Those of you with a nervous disposition towards terrible stories of human evil please don't read the rest of this post, as Rai drew my attention to an event a couple of years old now that has left me in near pieces.

A little while ago there was a girl who played World of Warcraft. She had many online friends, but she then sadly passed away in real life. Her friends, being all around the globe, decided to hold an online funeral for her in the game, at a location she had enjoyed. Unorthodox? Certainly, but a gesture I'm sure most of you can sympathise with given the context. Anyway, these friends of hers arranged the funeral and asked fellow players not to attack them as a show of respect.

A rival army ambushed them mid-funeral for whatever reason people do that to each other on WoW. Actually, it wasn't really a rival army, the guild that did this were doing it SPECIFICALLY to wreck the funeral. When reading about this I heard rumours that the deceased girls parents were watching this as it took place. This wasn't the death of a character, it was the death of a human being that was mocked and vandalised for all to see. Were these people punished? Of course not, they didn't do anything technically beyond the rules of the game. People don't commit this sort of act in real life for fear of reprisal. Is it worrying that we are starting to have to turn to reality for our escape from the moral monstrosities that plague our society?

Some of you may have read Craig's blog (http://guessthepassword.blogspot.com/) on the same topic, but if not I'm going to borrow this quote from the youtube comments page:

"Well i dont feel bad for the horde their. Its fucking payback for all the bullshit in Quel'Danas. They called alliance pussy Bassicly. for those horde who knew her im glad that bitch died, so why dont you go make a raid group and camp people in Quel'Danas some more then bitch, Peace out"

~Some dickwad

Ignore the crappy spelling and the names of factions you don't understand....I think you get the message.

And there are others similar. And a hell of alot saying "It was their own fault for having the funeral in contested territory". By the letter of the law, that's right. But these guys gave plenty of warning TO THE ATTACKERS and just asked for common human decency. Apparently it's OK to exploit people's grief over the death of someone close to them as long as you're doing it from behind a keyboard.

Damn, it's at times like this I wish there was a God just so these so called "people" can be well and truly smoten.

Here's hoping for a return to comedic form next post eh?

~Fox