10th March 2005, 9:26 PM
No different than the attachment to real material things really, except that it's something you put a lot of effort into getting most of the time. Someone coming along and ruining something you put a lot of effort into doing is rude in real life or otherwise. We were all working towards a general goal in AC, and that wasn't a competitive one. If someone came along and ruined something in an instant that took us all days to do, we would be well within our rights to be pretty upset about it. I mean, I'm sure you understand.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)