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The Gamer's Dilemma - Shinoa - 09-06-2017
I found an interesting article about the gamer's dilemma on Reddit. I think a couple other people here might enjoy it.
"One of the most disturbing ethical questions I’ve encountered in relation to videogames, though, is Morgan Luck’s so-called “Gamer’s Dilemma”. The puzzle it poses is roughly as follows. On the one hand, we don’t tend to regard people committing virtual murders as particularly ethically problematic: whether I’m leading a Mongol horde and slaughtering European peasants or assassinating clients as a killer for hire, it seems that, since no-one really gets hurt, my actions are not particularly morally troubling (there are exceptions to this of course). On the other hand, however, there are still some actions that I could perform in a videogame that we’re much less sanguine about: if we found out that a friend enjoyed playing games involving virtual child abuse or torture of animals, for example, we would doubtless judge them harshly for it"
Full article:
https://schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/2017/09/the-gamers-dilemma-guest-post-by-henry.html?m=1
RE: The Gamer's Dilemma - Slacker - 09-06-2017
I am definitely going to be reading this article after I put my son to sleep. I will update this post with opinions and thoughts.
RE: The Gamer's Dilemma - Shinoa - 09-06-2017
(09-06-2017, 02:01 AM)Slacker Wrote: I am definitely going to be reading this article after I put my son to sleep. I will update this post with opinions and thoughts.
Hope you enjoy the read
