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

[Zelda_Zealot]

Unless my life (Or the life of someone I care about) is at stake I would not kill someone,
even in Morrowind I approach someone to see if they are hostile before attacking. It is a rare accorence where I kill random NPCs in any game, only if I am in a extremly bad mood, and only because it is fake.

So I guess you could say that even if I knew this world was fake I would still be a nice guy and not go on mass killing sprees. I hold onto my morals tightly and would never lose them in any realistic enviroment.

[Intestinal Chaos]

Unless my life (Or the life of someone I care about) is at stake I would not kill someone,
even in Morrowind I approach someone to see if they are hostile before attacking. It is a rare accorence where I kill random NPCs in any game, only if I am in a extremly bad mood, and only because it is fake.

So I guess you could say that even if I knew this world was fake I would still be a nice guy and not go on mass killing sprees. I hold onto my morals tightly and would never lose them in any realistic enviroment.

It all really depends on which game and what char I'm playing really. Like it is almost impossible to not kill someone in a GTA 3-SA game (belive me I have tried) yet In Morrowind it all depends on who I am.