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You Wrote: Look, the lab rat thing is offensive because that experiment? The one they're referencing? Is the one where they hooked electricity into a rat's brains, to stimulate its brain's pleasures centers, and gave it the ability to stimulate the pleasure centers by stepping on a button The rats then stimulated themselves like until they died. They literally starved to death because they couldn't break away from the addiction of hitting those centers. That's what "stimulate to the point of starvation" is referencing There is little shame in acknowledging that there are enough similarities between rats and humans to use rats for experiments and have the found knowledge apply to humans It 치s* shameful and disturbing as hell, to take experiments that revealed how you could twist rat neurobiology to manipulate them and even cause them to essentially commit suicide through their basic biological directives, and then compare humans to that. Because you're basically telling shareholders, investors, whoever was at that meeting, that you can take that same principle (pleasure overriding common sense to the point of a creature failing to meet basic needs like food) and manipulate human beings to part with their cash for the profit of the company And there is no saying "Oh, well Gaia would stop hitting the pleasure centers before people starved" because they can't control that that precisely Few casinos or their workers (gambling is mentioned in those slides as well) would say that they want people to become so addicted to gambling that they lose their houses, their cars, they steal their kids' money, their family is ruined, and they may even be driven to suicide... No, they would deny wanting that. And maybe they would be telling the truth. But they can't control that. Most people can go into casinos and not become gambling addicts. But they always hook a few. And, by their tactics that are designed to make them money, they can't stop addicting those people unless they change their tactics And they won't. And Gaia won't either, apparently. And while I doubt GCash is capable of inflicting the same scale of ruin casinos and gambling can, the COoseems like he would have no trouble upping the scale with their tactics if it meant more profits. Addiction ruins people's lives, whether it's alchohol, drugs, gambling, or anything else that a human becomes hooked on. And doesn't matter if other companies are using it, it's still wrong to deliberately addict people for profits, because people can't overcome their biology and can be manipulated. And Gaia's userbase skews younger than most MMOs said that the "holy grail" of his principle is addiction. It Hello, This message is to let you know that we have deleted your post. The reason for this is because it contains real information about another person. We value the safety and privacy of all our users on Gaia Online, user and staff alike, and as a result, we do not allow names to be publicly posted starzXnight Gaia Online Admin

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gaio OnLINET Hello everyone! Back in 2014 I've taken a leave as an admin on Gaia after 12 years of work. I travelled, relaxed, worked on new ideas, and studied new programming techniques. Though I was away, I had always kept Gaia close to my heart. That's whywhen recently the opportunity for me to return and take charge, I immediately jumped on the offer Gaia had been a passion for me and other admins who created the community 14 years ago, and at it's core we believed that there should always be a community on the internet where we can truly be ourselves and have fun while we're together. We've created many games and features in the past, as well as hosted countless storyline and holiday events. Gaia started from having 250 users online and grew to having millions of Gaians. The internet had evolved a lot since then, but Gaia still have you, the core group ot users who enjoy being on the Gaia community. To all our users who see Gaia as their home, I want to thank you for being with us, and l'd like to spend more time in serving you and the whole community. Gaia had been under a different management team for the past few years, and now that I'm back on the helm, I will spend my time and effort coming up with projects that you guys will appreciate. Gaia was created because I made friends with some really creative artists and we all love anime and games. With the new management team, I'd like to draw from that original source of inspiration and spend time coming up with more creatively driven projects. Whatever the projects may be, I think you'll enjoy seeing what we will come up with in the following months. I have with me other old time admins such as LOcke and CP, who will be helping out in coming up with crazy new ideas and making new stuff. I look forward to working with the old gang just as much as having fun making new features for you all But for the coming few weeks, there will be lots of work that needs to be done in the Gaia office as me and others transition back. So I do ask for your patience while we figure things out, find out which projects to tackle, which feature to fix, or what events to launch, before getting back to all of you regarding details to what will come next. Happy to see you all again!!!
eanwhile at Gaia Management Don't forget to buy more Flinn's Booty goia
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