Just because you cannot fathom the reason someone does X, Y or Z doesnt mean they are crazy simply because you have issues with it. I have mined, pirated, ganked, pod ganked, lived everywhere except a WH and Pochven, and been to the AT, done immense amounts of FW, FCed low sec roams and incursions, I have built empires with manufacturing, blasted suspects and survived several burn Jitas, taught noobs, helped my friends take space, done PI to the extreme, and almost everything Eve has to offer including pretending to be a woman and got men to give me isk and things. It’s been a long, strange, crazy ride these past 2 decades.
Yet I find mining relaxing and chill. I started mining while I read the lore that CCP had put out, chatted with friends in and out of game and find it useful as a tool with a means to an end. Did I therefore “choose” mining because after a full 2 decades I still do it occasionally for my own purposes?
Mining for me has built empires, built ships for null wars, built ships for FW, built my own gank ships and basically funded my means to do other things. I used to play sports, fight in RL and eve and mining where my “downtime” where I wanted to relax and chill and immerse myself into a dangerous world fraught with vile and reprehensible people, friends, frenemies and actual people I knew in RL.
So sure I started there but I certainly also branched out. I also get the revenge thing when you were ganked. I got ganked and thought ‘hmm…. I can do this too!!’ Formulated a plan, executed said plan and did it for profit, lols, the horrible death threat mails, the tears and the general fun of destruction all the while selling my victims ships back to them.
Most miners become filthy arms merchants u see in the final end game in my opinion. And if they dont they arent trying hard enough.
So yes, I believe people can choose to be a miner.
