Samuel Ulbricht, "Ethics of Computer Gaming: A Groundwork" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
New Books in Science, Technology, and Society
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Can I Really Kill People in a Game?
With kant am i was just thinking about the concept of a, let's say, em for the sake of the argument, some kind of moral letter. If the first step on this letter would be, would imply that i actually do kill people, and i know that this hasSome sort of moral implication. But the next step of the latter would be just thinking about whether i do succeed or not. And if i intentionally decide to ignore this first step and just measure my outcome of the gaming results within the framework of success or non success, could this be a trick? E, well, i wouldn't say that this is a trick. Er, i mean er, with the practical
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