GamerGate: What?

As a gamer and now a game developer, I have to say that this whole GamerGate nonsense, which I just learned about today, is absurdity.

If you are as clueless as I was about this yesterday, here is the most neutral source I could find when I was asking what happened: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/gamergate

However, since I wish to reaffirm the ethical foundation of an art that I both support and engage in, I will say two things.

First, sending death threats to anyone is not a terribly civil way to live, and I condemn this behavior strongly.  This is not how gamers behave and not how civil human beings behave.   If you are pretending to be ISIS, stop it.  It is not becoming of anyone in Western civilization to stoop to such barbary.  And for the love of all that is good, if you are going to threaten someone with death, have the honor to do it face to face, not like some coward hiding behind the anonymity of the internet.

Second, sleeping around in general is not a good thing.  Using that to gain advantage in a competitive capitalistic environment is equally unethical and deplorable.  Sex is meant, by design, to be exercised in the structural confines of marriage between and man and a woman for the purposes of propagating the human race.  It is shameful that people use each other in such a flippant fashion.  It hurts everyone involved and it is disrespectful to do that to another person.

Sadly, we live in a corrupt and wicked world in which no one really cares one whit about anyone else and most people will use anyone to get what they want, when they want it.  Any shreds of honor, civility, and humanity are gone from this age, which is ironic since those are the very principles that everyone loves to tout...  God forbid if they should actually have to live by them.