Closed Why is hacking a bannable offense?

Character Name: AshleeIsAGuy
Last thing you did: Mob vacuuming and botting in Lost Time
Why do you think you got banned?: Don't know
Ban message when attempting to log in: Hacking
What GM banned you (optional): TimK

Good evening everybody. I awoke today to my disappointment to find my character banned for what I believe is an unreasonable offense. Over the past three and a half days or so I have worked arduously to level up on my character, AshleeIsAGuy (which was by the way named after the GM Ashlee, because I felt somewhat disturbed by her gender change and subsequent fallout), through nonconventional techniques such as mob vacuuming, full godmode, and botting. Now I know what some are you are thinking. This is a nonconventional way of leveling up, and some may even go as far as to accuse me of cheating. But I ask you, is it my fault that the hacks are so easily available and work so well? Put it a different way: is it considered robbing a bank if a bank leaves the money out in the open, and I take it? Of course not. Put it a different different way: is it considered rape if a gorgeous woman dressed in Victoria's secret undergarment starts pole dancing in the middle of a men's shower room, and I try to have sex with her? Of course not. The person or thing that contains the asset of interest is deliberately trying to tempt the audience into engaging that asset.

Before this I have never hacked in my life. It was just so easy to hack that it would have been impossible not to. I literally spent five minutes Googling "MapleStory v62 Hacks" until I found one that worked. Furthermore, I was not the one who developed the hack. I didn't write the executable that made hacking possible. Do guns kill people or do people kill people? Obviously, guns are the instruments that kill people. The same thing applied here. I didn't hack - it was the instrument of hacking - the GanjaTrainer executable - that made hacking possible. The hack, or at least the person that made that hack should be punished - not me. Hacking in general should not be a bannable offense because of how easy it is on this server, and because most of us are not the actual ones who manufactured the hacking executable. If the GMs truly want justice, I suggest them to immediately contact the FBI, or assemble some cyberdefensive task force in order to triangulate the location of those who dare to assemble hacking executables, and make them so easily accessible to the general populace.

In the domain of MapleStory, and on this server especially, there is a growing movement against the nonconventional, the strange, the unknown. And is it this force that is irrationally pulling us towards intolerance. I remember back in 2007, when I played the American branded version of MapleStory, people and GMs were atleast a little more accepting of Maplers who were different. They didn't ban hackers, scammers, trolls, transgenders, black people who said that word n*gger, and Moniqua. It was this sort of tolerance that made a diverse community of Maplers possible. If the world of MapleStory continues down this path then we will experience something similar to the rise of Fascism in Europe. Be warned.

 

I'm not even going to give you a serious reply, because you already know the answer.