The Unbeliever, Oblivion's moral issues Options

[DoomedOne]

So a tiny thing brought up in the main forums are the ideas of moral values.

In The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever by Stephen R. Donaldson the main character chooses not to accept this dream world as reality and therefore finds it okay to rape a young girl.

In the main forum this topic was slashed and flamed in all three threads it made an appearance because people did not understand the idea. It's simple, if you accept a world as fake, whether you realize you're dreaming, or you're in a video game, do the moral laws you would usually uphold yourself to still stand? Would you suddenly find it okay to exercise the most evil, atrocious side of your personality and find it pleasurable, to your character, at least, to murder and mutilate?

This question has a bigger purpose, but first I'd like some people's opinions on where they stand when it comes to morality and video games. If they created a video game where the suffering of your victims looked parallel to if you were performing the act in real life, would you still be able to go through with it?

This post has been edited by DoomedOne: Sep 8 2005, 12:37 AM

[Soulseeker3.0]

I don't know, Of coure in real life, right now, it is easy to say "No, I won't do that or I could never kill a man in that situation (etc)" but when you are acctually there it would be hard to, uhh (sorry looking for the word ), uphold your morals that you would keep in real life.

Like is somebody acctually came up and could convince me that this world is a fake, then I would probebly, no without a shadow of a doubt, would have the urge to that sort of thing. But like I said easy to say no I would or wouldn't do that but only in that exact possition you would know what you would do.

So those are my two cents, and is that book actually a real book? if so were could I find it?

This post has been edited by Soulseeker3.0: Sep 8 2005, 12:52 AM