Simulating Good and Evil: The Morality and Politics of Videogames

Schulzke, Marcus

ISBN 10: 1978818564 / ISBN 13: 9781978818569

Edité par Rutgers University Press, 2020

pp. 222. N° de réf. du vendeur 379944972

Synopsis :

Simulating Good and Evil shows that the moral panic surrounding violent videogames is deeply misguided, and often politically motivated, but that games are nevertheless morally important. Simulated actions are morally defensible because they take place outside the real world and do not inflict real harms. Decades of research purporting to show that videogames are immoral has failed to produce convincing evidence of this. However, games are morally important because they simulate decisions that would have moral weight if they were set in the real world. Videogames should be seen as spaces in which players may experiment with moral reasoning strategies without taking any actions that would themselves be subject to moral evaluation. Some videogame content may be upsetting or offensive, but mere offense does not necessarily indicate a moral problem. Upsetting content is best understood by applying existing theories for evaluating political ideologies and offensive speech.

À propos de l?auteur: MARCUS SCHULZKE is the Denver based author of The Pursuit of Moral Warfare: Ethical Theory and Practice in Counterinsurgency Operations (2018), Combat Drones and Support for the Use of Force, with James Walsh (2018), The Politics of New Atheism, with Stuart McAnulla, and Steven Kettell (2018), Just War Theory and Civilian Casualties (2017), and The Morality of Drone Warfare and the Politics of Regulation (2017).

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Simulating Good and Evil: The Morality and ...
Éditeur : Rutgers University Press
Date d'édition : 2020
Reliure : Couverture souple
Etat : New