As soon as someone starts with the "I don't care what anyone says" line, they are safe to dismiss. They are a waste of time, because they'll come up with every idiotic argument that they can and argue it over and over regardless of what counterpoints you provide. Sounding like an idiot will not slow them down one bit. Their arguments are easy to respond to:
- Blizzard allows it because it's extra money-- this has been refuted so often and in so many ways that I am amazed people bother to try it anymore. When you called him on it, he claims that neither of you have enough data on multiboxers or Blizzard's finances, which is curious since it undermines his point.
- People do it to feel superior to others-- irrelevant to the questions about whether it is right or wrong, aside from being an inaccurate generalization.
- People do it to make up for a lack of skill-- irrelevant to the questions about whether it is right or wrong, aside from being an inaccurate generalization. Most people do it because it's an additional challenge. This is usually the excuse made by someone butthurt over being torched in a 5-v-1 situation. You can't fix stupid.
- People do it to avoid playing with others-- irrelevant to the questions about whether it is right or wrong, aside from being an inaccurate generalization. Most multiboxers have plenty of friends and play/raid with them and with their guilds. Multiboxing is something they do in addition to playing with others, not as a substitute. Anti-multiboxers who make this accusation are usually the same ones who lost 5-v-1 because they didn't have any friends or guildmates who would be willing to help them. Kind of ironic, when you think about it.
- It's immoral/unethical-- my favorite one. You are supporting a company that you feel allows immoral and unethical behavior because they can be paid off by the extra subscription dollars. If it's so bad, and you are sooo concerned about right and wrong, why haven't you quit in protest? Please don't tell me that you're going to "keep this up until they change it"-- they've made it clear that they're not changing it, so you're only saying that in order to continue to play while trying to claim the high ground. Sorry, but if you are making this argument and have not canceled your account by now, you're a hypocrite.
The fact that Lajia mostly uses ad hominem attacks as her reasons for arguing against multiboxing shows that she has no practical grounds to stand on. So the easiest thing is to imply that since the only people who multibox are 'bad' then multiboxing itself must be bad by logical extension. Multiboxers suck at the game, are anti-social, are conceited jerks, so on and so forth. Thus multiboxing must be a bad thing. Aside from the fact that none of that has anything to do with the legitimacy of Blizzard's stance on the issue, it's all wrong and therefore is a false argument to make.
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