-I've seen this argument before.
-40% of people are mad because people can just buy their rep horse.
-40% of people say that spending real life money on an item represents equals merit.
-20% of people don't care
I can also give away the ending of this thread. Endless bickering, neither side making a single concession and a blue name locking the thread.
and YET... can't resist gravitational force of arguing.
Probably because this is a discussion forum and not all of us will go around reading every thread every day. the OP probably has no idea that this has already been argued ad-nauseam.
There isn't much left (in reality) that hasn't already been discussed-to-death on these boards, so you might as well enjoy the opportunity to argue about it... again.