Do online multiplayer games raise ethical issues?<\/p>\n
We think of games as places free of ethics because they are isolated from the “real” world. Instead of ethics we have concepts like “fair play”. You don’t try to behave ethically in a game, but you are called upon to follow the rules and not cheat.<\/p>\n
Lev Grossman has a good article on the ethical questions raised by games like Ultima that slip into becoming worlds for virtual living. See The Village Voice: Machine Age: Bloody Ethics by Lev Grossman<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Do online multiplayer games raise ethical issues? We think of games as places free of ethics because they are isolated from the “real” world. Instead of ethics we have concepts like “fair play”. You don’t try to behave ethically in a game, but you are called upon to follow the rules and not cheat. Lev … Continue reading Ethics in MUDs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}