Please stop trying to bring down "the hobby" with your own unsubstantiated grievances - it is pathetically sooky.Elmer wrote:No animosity KCAR, more a sad reflection on the state of this hobby and the world at large where desire and greed rule. People keep secrets for two main reasons, to avoid recriminations for illegal/amoral acts or to protect their ability to profit.
You are correct that in this world, desire rules. That is human nature. If you don't have goals and desire, then purpose and ambition is dead.
As for "greed", this is just a lame cliché used to paint some sort of fabricated self-victimisation, and nearly always manifested by some form of jealousy or perceived entitlement.
You are, however, spot-on with the reasons people keep secrets - but so what?
Oh, and if you'd like a chojubai, I can send you one with complements - I have heaps of them. They sprout suckers like a noxious weed.