[73] Of Democracy is such a foul word

Democracy is such a foul word.

One quiet night, I was in front of the computer playing Soldier of Fortune II multiplayer game. However, I was on a new server instead of redcoat.net or dontsleep.org. Those two servers were offline for unknown reason. In fact, a lot of cracked servers for SoF2 were  offline, leaving only several cracked servers located in Europe.

I was connected to a server in Austria and was playing a deathmatch game peacefully. There were eight players trying to shoot each other’s head off for a few minutes. One guy was leading the pact with unbelievable amount of frags with the second-placed player having no way of getting near the leader score. I was fighting for a second place with a grenade launcher.

In the middle of the game, a new player logged on and was playing well enough to avoid from being called a noob. After a few cycle, he was tired of deathmatch and called for a team deathmatch. The nine players voted and the motion was passed with five with against three against. The map changed and the cycle restarted. For some reasons, the new player was unsatisfied with the new game type and called for another vote, asking for infiltration game type. I love infiltration game but with only nine players, it would certainly be dull game. So, I voted against. Most of the other thought of the same thing and the motion was denied from becoming active. He was not happy with the result and called for another vote and it failed yet again.

After a few kills, he called for yet another vote for an infiltration game. Annoyed by the needless calls, I sent a global message to him asking him to stop calling for a vote. In return, he said that I cannot do anything because it is his rights. I told him later that he won’t win because he had called the same motion three times and all tries had failed.

Certainly common sense would have told him the same thing but he just wouldn’t give up.

Having enough of his nuisance, I called for a vote to kick him and it was passed swiftly. After that incident, now I remember why democracy was not practiced on redcoat.net or dontsleep.org. There will always somebody who will abuse the system.

Talk about rights and democracy.

Democracy is not the nature of human society as some would have claimed. The ideology is neither the best nor perfect; not when it is fully exercised without restrictions.

I believe in a limited democracy. The word limited is not a bad word as it would seem to be. It is merely to describe a controlled environment and it doesn’t matter whether the control is a total grip or just a couple of weak strings keeping a lot of sticks together.

Nevertheless, by uttering these words doesn’t mean that I am against freedom. I am a freedom lover. I am simply stressing that a few regulations made intact is a good thing.

Oh, did I mention that I made a new personal record for Minesweeper’s beginner level?

My record is six seconds without cheats but unfortunately for me, the world record is two seconds. I wonder how on earth somebody could complete the game without excessively being lucky. Hmm…

Oh well… Btw, read this will you?