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Alright, I know exactly what you're currently thinking: ARE YOU CRAZY!!! OF COURSE NOT!!! Well, not too many people know griefing from both perspectives: as a victim, and as a griefer. There are two sides to this matter, and few have seen both. You can't form a proper opinion until you know all of the facts. I know the motives of griefers, because I am a griefer. I know the pain of being griefed, because I have been griefed.
First, let's look at the average age of a minecraft user. This is very hard to uncover, for there are people as young as four and as old as eighty playing this game.But like most video games, it is populated by teens and preteens. This is around the part of your life where you learn that life's not all unicorns and rainbows. You learn that you often work towards something just to find that you wasted your energy. You learn that life's not fair, and that the truth is ugly.
Now let's look at what griefers do. We cause chaos and destruction because we love chaos and destruction. We steal because we can. We do everything that we are shamed for simply because it is easiest. And some of us, including me, will seek out the players that act the most immature and grief them just for their reactions. We laugh at them raging, because we used to rage and others laughed at us, and now that we have some maturity we laugh at ourselves and we know that they, too, will someday laugh at themselves.
So what does it feel like to be griefed? Bad. It makes you feel like all the work that you had put into whatever got destroyed was for nothing. How could this be good? The world is not a good place. School teaches kids to be wimps who can't stand up for themselves. So obviously, things don't go well the first time that a kid gets griefed. But the second time they get griefed, they know a little bit more about how to stand up for themselves. By the tenth time they get griefed, they know exactly what to do. These problem solving skills will help them later in life.
So does griefing help the community? Slightly. Should you become a griefer? I don't care. Just don't grief on servers that don't allow it.
First, let's look at the average age of a minecraft user. This is very hard to uncover, for there are people as young as four and as old as eighty playing this game.But like most video games, it is populated by teens and preteens. This is around the part of your life where you learn that life's not all unicorns and rainbows. You learn that you often work towards something just to find that you wasted your energy. You learn that life's not fair, and that the truth is ugly.
Now let's look at what griefers do. We cause chaos and destruction because we love chaos and destruction. We steal because we can. We do everything that we are shamed for simply because it is easiest. And some of us, including me, will seek out the players that act the most immature and grief them just for their reactions. We laugh at them raging, because we used to rage and others laughed at us, and now that we have some maturity we laugh at ourselves and we know that they, too, will someday laugh at themselves.
So what does it feel like to be griefed? Bad. It makes you feel like all the work that you had put into whatever got destroyed was for nothing. How could this be good? The world is not a good place. School teaches kids to be wimps who can't stand up for themselves. So obviously, things don't go well the first time that a kid gets griefed. But the second time they get griefed, they know a little bit more about how to stand up for themselves. By the tenth time they get griefed, they know exactly what to do. These problem solving skills will help them later in life.
So does griefing help the community? Slightly. Should you become a griefer? I don't care. Just don't grief on servers that don't allow it.
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