Bullying on FFXIV

[Jynx]

It is creating a culture where people can do whatever they want with no fear of repercussions.

This is wrong in so many ways, let's just start by saying you can't "Do whatever you want" Many people have found this out the hard way.

Can you make an ass out of yourself with no repurcussions...sure, but really that's about as far as internt anonymity is going to get you. Many things you do over the net, can and do have real life repurcussions if you take them too far, and people are far from being untracable unless they are prepared to evade detection (Hinting at something more notorious than just being a internet asshat, that some anti anonymity law wouldn't deter) In the end the only people you end up punishing is the common user who now has to watch what they say for fear of being judged by everyone around them the same way they are in real life.

Being Anonamous online is a much larger boon than a burden to the world, I'd rather let people be who they really are unchained from the idiotic restraints our general society places on us. Race/Gender/Creed rarely have the same impact they do online because we don't usually encounter a person and have the same chance we do when we meet them in real life to impose steriotypes and prejiduces on them before we even know them.

Should Online ID's read like this.

(Made up information...sorry to any Johnathan Hales I mistakenly represent)
Johnathan Hale
28 White Caucasian Male
235 Pounds
6'2
Christian

Or

Jo-Hailmaker

What one of these two descriptions offers nothing to base your own presumptions onto (Unless you hate hail) before you can read/hear what they have to say. Johnathan could be from a repressed millitaristic state and be bringing knowledge to his friends about how bad the situation in his country is with the dictator shooting people in the streets who dare talk about his regime.

With Anonymity John was able to speak out against his opressor, speak to people with far less pre-ordained bias, and perhaps even sway nations around the world to share his plight for freedom of his people.

...or he could be found as his real name is online and be shot in the street. You know that's all worth it so Boobs-Mgee couldn't call Tom-T a jerk on the interwebs.

[Yves]

Being Anonamous online is a much larger boon than a burden to the world, I'd rather let people be who they really are unchained from the idiotic restraints our general society places on us. Race/Gender/Creed rarely have the same impact they do online because we don't usually encounter a person and have the same chance we do when we meet them in real life to impose steriotypes and prejiduces on them before we even know them.

P1: I'd rather let people be who they really are unchained from the idiotic restraints our general society places on us (A)

P2: Race/Gender/Creed rarely have the same impact they do online because we don't usually encounter a person and have the same chance we do when we meet them in real life to impose steriotypes and prejiduces on them before we even know them. (A)

C: Being Anonamous online is a much larger boon than a burden to the world

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A
C

This is invalid. Your conclusion does not flow from your premises at all. People "being unrestrained" does not support the statement that being anonymous is a boon to the world. Even formed in a categorical format it doesn't work.

A v ~A
A
...C

This is question begging. After this you strawmanned the argument while rocking the slippery slope with your argumentum ad oppression concept.

I understand your viewpoint and can even appreciate it (to an extent) but it's invalid. There are reasons for why this shouldn't be the case but these aren't them.