Samuel Ulbricht, "Ethics of Computer Gaming: A Groundwork" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
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Morally Evaluating Computer Game Actions
In your first paragraph, you underline your position that the activity of playing a game and the game as an artifact are not the same thing. Could you please elaborate on this argument a bit, and also tell us why this very distinction is so important and relevant for your next chapters to come? Yes, of course. Like you said, i think it's very important to distinguish different possible objects for a moral evaluation before starting an ethical analysis. And when morally evaluating computer game actions, we should not mix these different nomiative dimensions. I can do something wrong while playing a morally decent computer game, and i can play mor questionable games in a permittable way. On the one hand
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