Where's the logic?

I posted a quick snippet from Blackguard yesterday and I've yet to find any good logic. If you break the whole (which I really won't) post down it basically reads.
Blackguard: We did it because newbs are dumb and weak and death is a joke.

I have a few problems with his PR statement as did 9 pages worth of banter about this one issue. At the risk of beating a dead horse I have to get some of this off my chest.

Logical mistake #1: must pay some amount of penance to make up for this, but not an unreasonable one since not all deaths are your fault.

I wish this could be expounded... No really. In the world there is death it's every where. If you go to Runnyeye for the any purpose go AFK and Die by train, it's your fault for not afking in a safer environment. If you jump off the side of the Bell tower in Antonica to get your safe fall up and die, is is your fault. If your in a grp with retards that rush a Even Epic X4 and you all die it's still your fault by choosing the group your in. In all 3 cases you learn, and learning is apart of a world; it's what makes it fun. Especially for a newb at least that's what the drawl was for me. Now there maybe .000000000000001% chance that a death isn't your fault. Because I can't account for that anomaly we will just say for the purposes of this blog...IT'S ALWAYS YOUR FAULT

Logical mistake #2: it should not be so trivial as to make you...... Use it as transportation.... Take unreasonable risks because you feel there is no penalty at all.

I think this one was a typo, what he meant to say was. We will be removing evac from all wiz, warlock, and Scouts. To make way for our new way of Transportation, Death by Evac!! Find new ways to exploit this fun new trick. If your tired of your grp die and evac. Sweet aint it? Also you see that Garganual canyon you need to scale down into is surrounded by NPC that can wax your solo ass. That's right just jump all the way down get update and die in the process so you can then again use your free evac. Remember though we may look into this evac and allow it to only be used once every 30min.

There are other small variance's in the argument for shards I seen as inconsequential. Such as "Players new to the genre or game were often susceptible to frustration when attempting to recover their spirit shards, and would sometimes log out when facing such failures"
UM! GOOD, if your frustrated at a easy part of the game that was spelled out to you in the Island and you quit now better for us all. As a player I don't want to deal with you at lvl 30 when your stressing out about how you have no food or water left or who knows what else. Besides why is SOE catering to Newb vs Vet's in this one?

I mean give me a break, we all get frustrated at times. Like anything sometimes you need a break and when you come back you'll figure it out. Call me crazy but that's what I believe a lot of us got hooked on while we played our first MMO(that and the fact there was a real community). Once you die and you learn after a while it becomes a nuisance to get the shard but hey, that was just enough to stop some if not most people from die'n. If you don't learn then go to WOW I'm sure there are some lvl 65's there waiting to camp a no nothing newb.

There were other posters that had great Idea's and one in paticular I liked. It was along the same lines of what I was originally thinking before this whole fiasco of weakening the Death Vs Reward situation at hand.

To keep it nice I agree this would satisfy the boisterous remarks of weakening the game more.

1 to 10 no spirit shard or debt... Mend

10 to 19 spirit shard with a one day absorb timer, minor debt, mend

20 to 29 Spirit shard with a 3 day timer, med debt, mend

30 to 39 Spirit shard with a week timer, med debt, mend going higher

40 to 49 A lot of Debt and expenses of armor high

50 to 59 SWEET GOD there is debt, expenses of armor maxing

60 XP loss(not Debt) The chance of being kicked back to 59. The only change is that you should lvl 60 gain xp to 10% only till next expantion. Expenses of armor at MAX.

This would actually give a level 1 to 60 better Risk V Rewards then currently exists. Though I still believe that the spirit shard should be in there to stop the Ghetto Evac from happening.

If EQ2 don't fix this weakening of the Norathian world soon you will find me in Battlefield 2 that is all.