| NinjaKido said: Raping another person is an end in itself . People don't usualy kill for the sake of killing , in games it's usualy a means to an end. For example you kill the Nazi's to stop the nazi invasion or you kill liquid ocelot to prevent him from gaining control of the SOP system. It's when Killing becomes an end in itself it's looked down upon , e.g Manhunt , GTA 4 possibly Killing for the sake of killing is worse than killing to achieve an end. It would seem abnormal to use rape as a noble means to an end , I don't think neither killing for the sake or killing or raping for the sake of raping is acceptable but to say we do X so surely everything less evil than X should be acceptable ? Don't use one evil to justify another. |
So in Gears when gamers giggle while chainsawing another character in multiplayer, they're doing it for freedom, the country and mom's apple pie? Pieces of meat and blood spluttering around are just titillating their sadism, because, you know, we are all sadics in some measure. And they're feeling the exilaration of violent victory, because, you know, we're all violent prevaricating bastards in some measure.
And that's not an evil justified by another evil. That's not an evil at all.
I might find exagerate affection for digital gore silly, but never evil. As I find that rape game quite silly, but not evil.
Simply because evil - being a moral denotation - does not apply to actions that only affect bunch of pixels. Morality is about how we treat other living beings.
