I keep waiting for the day where I run into a cheater on a server, call the person out, and the person types back a nice grammatically correct slut sickle to the tune of “Yeah, I know I’m cheating. But what can I say? This is one of the contradictions of my life.” Then I sit there in shock as half the server types back “Yeah, leave him alone! He’s struggling with an issue!” The rest of the server will keep quiet, but obviously consider it a real poignant response. Maybe a few will even follow the hacker around the map like a human shield so he or she can relax while hacking. I mean, the cheater is obviously already stressed out about the cheating thing, there’s no reason for him or her to accidentally take a stray bullet.

Maybe the cheating issue isn’t at that point yet, but I think we are headed down the right path. First we stop yelling at people we think are cheating. Then we stop yelling at people we know are cheating. Then we play with people who are proud of cheating. And finally we start accepting cheating based on reasoning that sounds plausible, but is really the written and vocal equivalent of some guy standing in the middle of the room and playing a flute with his ass.