How am I as a human being suppose to respond to this. Options

[Mr.Scruff]

I just got back from playing on the Lets Get It On servers.
While playing, a player who named his COD2 character the same name as the killer of Virginia Tech signed on and was playing. I asked him politely to please change his name because it was just blasphemy and beyond disrespect out of all the names he could choose, it be Cho Sueng Huei (is that how u spell it)

As you all know, 32 innocent souls were masacred at Virginia Tech last week by one man and then he himself commited suicide.

So then after I asked him , he started asking blatantly why he should change his name. and i explained why. then he told me "Well thats waht American soldiers do everyday in Iraq" so i just blew up and was swearing everywhere and i just signed off eventually.

now, i understand everybody has a right to freedom of speech. but to play a video game using the name of a mass murderer for u game name? for all i could give a **** his name could be Fred or Donkey or )*U#)*#UR)*UR)*U#, but it had to be that name.

How would you all have responded to this?

[pezking]

I thought about that whole naming thing after I posted here the first time. Is it different to have a name like Hitler or Goebbels? In my opinion, YES. The kid who used the name for the mass murderer at the VT campus was a huge fuck up. He did it as a way to create drama or bring attention onto himself. Now people that use names that are WW2 driven are different because it's military history and we're playing a game involving military history. The Dahmer, Oklahoma Bomber, and other crazy stuff is stupid. Those people, like the VT shooter, are looking for attention. They are most likely picked on in school, have no friends, or no life... so to get people to talk to them they create a name that no one will like. Same philosophy typically applies to the guys that use the hot key chats over and over in the game and team killers. They're reaching out, unfortunately the wrong way... they need to see a shrink.

This post has been edited by pezking: 04/27/07 2:35pm