Some people are too stupid to breathe...

I think this has got to rank up there as one of the stupidest things I
have ever heard expressed by anyone, and it actually pains me that
this was NOT written by one of the trolls who started the thread:

If you want to be extreme about it, genocide
is a form of expression and therefore sacred. I consider free will to
be sacred, and pretty much nothing else. I have no right to stop
anyone from doing anything that doesn't directly harm myself or those
I care about. Technically genocide would be harmful to me, but I'm
speaking in broad terms.

Yes, someone actually wrote this on one of the mailing lists I'm on.

Evil Mage Concept

So, I had an evil character concept for Mage today:

An Amish VirtualAdept.

I really hope nobody just snarked whatever they were drinking all over their hardware...

Seriously, though, I think it could work. The Digital Web in Mage is reachable not just via computers, but Astrally as well. Kid could have grown up Amish but always had machines talking to him. He'd have a big thing for the concept of "appropriate technology", treat machines a lot like living things (a "horse whisperer" type for tech), visit the digital web in trances/dreams, maybe even have something computer-like built out of an old manual typewriter and a few other things that works purely via magic. Not sure if that would push it too far towards the Sons of Ether though. But I really think that with enough thought and planning, this character would be possible to pull off. And hell... most of the Pow-Wow system of magic that is practiced in the Pennsylvania Dutch areas is based off of principles of Correspondence. I'm not going to play him anytime soon, but I could... someday. :)