# Shooting new players is a good thing! YES or NO? **URL:** \ **Category:** Crime & Punishment\ **Created:** [August 2, 2018, 1:00pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/shooting-new-players-is-a-good-thing-yes-or-no/94680 "2018-08-02T13:00:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 166
**Author:** ![Whitehound](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/whitehound/32/59604_2.png) [@Whitehound](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Whitehound)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 1:54pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/shooting-new-players-is-a-good-thing-yes-or-no/94680/166 "2018-08-10T13:54:26Z")
> [@Ima\_Wreckyou](#): > > > [@Bolvek\_Einherjar](#): > > > > that makes many of you out there sociopaths > > No it doesn’t. This is a game not RL. I kind of does. I mean, when someone uses the time for how recently a player started to play EVE as their sole reason to shoot them, then they are using a real life aspect to base their decision on. The question then is, is one a sociopath because of the decisions one makes, or because of the consequences they have? When I pick up a gun and shoot at you in RL, but I miss, what am I? Or if I was a sociopath and I’d be living in the middle of the woods with nobody around, would I then no longer be a sociopath or would I be a lonely sociopath? While I’m not trying to label others as sociopaths, am I not so sure if shooting others in-game without any in-game reasons wouldn’t allow for some kind of judgement on that person in real life when their decision is solely based on a real life aspect. Whatever one wants to believe in the end, it’s still only a game. And if one uses a game to live out a bit of sociopathic tendencies, and doesn’t turn it into harassment (which is against the EULA) do I not see anything wrong with it. Human nature isn’t perfect. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/shooting-new-players-is-a-good-thing-yes-or-no/94680)._