[David]

Within a similar vein, though perhaps not as extreme, is having the names of actual murderers as an integral part of our game mode. 

There are several reasons why I believe this to be the case.

First of all, it is disrespectful to the victims of the crimes. While the chances that the relative of a Jeffrey Dahmer victim will join our server are admittedly slim, that's not the point. A crime victim need not be related to us to deserve our respect. 

Second, it trivializes their crimes. We cannot become numb to the impact that their actions had on others. These are mass murderers. They ended the lives of other human beings. That must always remain on the forefront when someone reads their name. 

With mass murderers, our generation of internet users increasingly appears more concerned with the "kill count" of an attack or murderer rather than focusing on the emotional and psychological impact that such crimes will have on the victims and their families. This has been called a dehumanized perception, which has been defined as the "failure to spontaneously consider the mind of another person." And such a perception is often a prerequisite for the commission of genocide, torture, and various other atrocities. 

Finally, adding the names of actual murderers or other terrorists comes across to me as a form of venerating these creatures. By raising their names to a position of prominence on our server, we would be conveying the idea that their actions are worthy of recognition. They are not. Causing the deaths of many other people should not qualify someone as being consequential. They deserve no sort of online homage on our server.

I do not want our server to be a place that contributes to the desensitization to violence, a place where our players become numb to the wrongful nature of these criminals. Again, while the game is inherently violent, we need not bring it closer to something like the role-playing video game that attempted to recreate the shooting that occurred at Columbine High School. No, we need not do anything that would have an additional hand in the rise of extremism occurring in the United States and abroad. 

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We should do what we can to keep this as a game. And the most important aspect of a game is that it be fun. We already advance this objective with things like player models, which makes it so you are not stabbing another player, but rather a Doritos bag. Therefore, I think we should ensure that the names that we add be those that are amusing and fun. I also believe that would include removing the names that others have found to be problematic.

okay guys, I think we already knew this, but Nicky is the Karen of Dink's Gmod. If this doesn't sell it to you, I don't know what will.