HAX 0FF

The thing that differs men from animals is the ability to create.

Anyone can destroy something. It takes far less effort and style to destroy something : it�s easy and lazy, and you�ve certainly got far less to show for it when you�ve finished. All you got at the end is a bit of rubble, a bit of wreckage, and the satisfaction that you�ve got power.

A child likes to destroy things because it can. Because it has power.

Because whatever it was that someone else made you destroyed. Because you couldn�t make something yourself, you couldn�t express yourself, you had to destroy something someone else made.

This is why I love hackers. Or, as they like to be known, in the new txting generation, �hax0rs�. Now, I have no idea what the clich� is of a hacker, or a hax0r, or an as5h0le, or whatever they like to be called, but I�ve got a mental image. Not of some seventeen year old surfing on Broadband in a suburban bedroom downloading dirty pictures and hacking tools, but of their mental makeup.

People who don�t realise that their actions affect other people. People who either don�t know, don�t care, or both. In an online world, other people don�t exist. Sure, there are online identities, but these aren�t people. They�re just names, they�re not people with loves, lives, passions, hopes. They�re just there for your entertainment.

These are hax0rs. People who don�t live in the real world : people who don�t demonstrate any empathy, any understanding, any thing, about what it is to be a person, about what it is to feel sympathy, about any of the qualities that make people great.

People who escape into some fantasy world where what they do actually matters. People who call themselves names like Hackcracker, Egrid the Level23 HackWizard, or whatever : and think that this is important.

It isn�t. Food, love, sex, and dancing are important. Not software coding and stealing other peoples identities, email addresses, or websites. That�s bullshit for wankers who don�t like the real world. Yes, Steven, in your bedroom, running a trojan to deface the website of the bank that turned down your halfbaked online-geek-gaming-scam business loan, I�m talking about you. Revenge has never been so ignored.

These sad little pricks, typing away, launching their programs, their Trojans, with their hacking, their cracking, setting out to destroy what other people create, to fill this amazing communication tool with porn and viruses, to try and tear down the great potential of mankind and use it to build rubble and wreckage.

Yes, hax0rs, for those about to hax, we salute you. For you, and only you, rape language and turn it inside out, for you and only you, trample other peoples work, for no reason other than you can. Instead of building and creating, why not destroy?

Why not? Because the human race deserves so much better. There is nothing creative, nothing great in destroying other peoples work. And if you use your talents to destroy, you are why the human race is in such a pitiful state now.

Hax off.