<Game> Questions Only 18 (LV APPR)

[Fett One]

These are the rules:
1.- QUESTIONS ONLY - The title says it. Never say anything out of a question.
2.- Every post must be related to the previous post.
3.- Do not post more than 5 times within 24 hours.
4.- Everyone must abide by the rules of the PCG forum and TPM in general, as in all other topics.


How is everyone's Saturday going so far?

[mr_pikachu]

Why do you want to know? Are you a stalker?

[Knight of Time]

Why would anyone want to be a stalker when that could get them into trouble?

[mr_pikachu]

Isn't the fact that some people are stalkers proof that they have reasons to participate in that activity?

[Fett One]

Why do they do it though?

[Lady Vulpix]

Why would anyone assume someone is a stalker just for asking how our Saturday's going anyway?

[mr_pikachu]

Couldn't the information we reveal through answering the question be used to a stalker's benefit?

[Fett One]

How could that information be beneficial?

[mr_pikachu]

Wouldn't such information give the stalker clues about the user's daily life and schedule as well as about the user's offline identity?

[Lady Vulpix]

How intimidating would a stalker be if he told you things you posted on a message board?

[mr_pikachu]

Wouldn't it at least mean that the stalker was focused enough on tracking you to know what you said online? What about the fear of what else such a person might know, or whether they might use private information (like Social Security numbers) to harm you?

[Lady Vulpix]

But who would post social security numbers online?

[Fett One]

Couldn't a person who is new to the internet be dumb enough to think it will be safe to post something like that on-line?

[mr_pikachu]

And don't many people post other private information online, such as their credit card numbers? What if someone thought their information was safe when it really wasn't?

[Lady Vulpix]

Then shouldn't people be more careful about what kind of informtion they give and who they give it to, rather than freaking out when someone asks them how their saturday was?
BTW, did you know you have 5555 posts?

[mr_pikachu]

Can't people still be tricked by receivers who appear to be secure or honest?

And do you believe 5,555 to be an unusual number of posts?

[Lady Vulpix]

Isn't it a nice number?

And don't most browsers display the security information of the site they're browsing?

[mr_pikachu]

What if their users are too careless to pay attention? Or, worse yet, what if they don't even know what it means?

[Lady Vulpix]

Should we try to find out who doesn't know and teach them?

[mr_pikachu]

How would you discover who was uneducated in this matter?

[Fett One]

Wouldn't the uneducated stand out since they will be the ones that keep posting things that they shouldn't be posting?

[mr_pikachu]

But how can we figure out who all of them are if they post what they shouldn't post in all sorts of different places around the internet?

[Fett One]

Do we really have to find all of them? Couldn't you settle with just finding a handfull of them?

[mr_pikachu]

What good would it do if we only helped a handful of them?

[Fett One]

Isn't helping a handful of people better than helping no one?

[mr_pikachu]

But wouldn't the impact be more valuable if we made the effort to help everyone?

[Fett One]

What if most of these people don't want to be helped? Would that diminish the value of your help towards those that want it?

[mr_pikachu]

More importantly, if some people don't want to be helped, should we force our help upon them?

[Fett One]

What would be the morally right thing to do?

[mr_pikachu]

Do morals have to be the sole deciding factor? What about the old adage, "The ends justify the means"?

[Fett One]

Didn't you ever hear the expression "the ends don't always justify the means"?

[mr_pikachu]

Isn't that expression merely a joke?

[Fett One]

How is it merely a joke?

[mr_pikachu]

Does anybody really take that expression seriously?

[Fett One]

If people don't take it seriously, then doesn't that mean they have no problem with doing things such as blowing up a mall and killing thousands simply because they wanted one person that was in the mall dead?

[Lady Vulpix]

Do you know who created that saying?

[mr_pikachu]

Is it even clear when that saying was created?

[Lady Vulpix]

Wasn't it Maquiavelo who created it?

[mr_pikachu]

Who the heck is Maquiavelo?

[Lady Vulpix]

Is it possible that the name they taught me at school was not his real name :/? Could his real name be Machiavelli, since he was Italian?