Samuel Ulbricht, "Ethics of Computer Gaming: A Groundwork" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
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Kant's Duty Based Ethics in Computer Games
Kant's duty based ethics can tackle some of the hurdles that e utilitarianism, or also the aristotelian ethics phase. As soon as my will contradicts the categorical imperative while playing my computer game, action is morally wrong. But what about fictionalt fictional actions, when my will aims only at fictive goals? And this is one of the cor questions of my book. i think that fictional actions can indeed contradict the catagogical imperative and therefore be immoral even if we assume fictitious words to be amoral worlds. I claim that a fictional action is morally relevant when the player interprets his own action as morally relevant. The players then use a special type of make believe.
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