Do you like video games? OMG, me too!
What would you say if I told you that playing video games would actually make you a more morally well-rounded person?
Blasphemy! Jack Thompson has clearly shown that video games do nothing more than teach otherwise good children how to steal cars, kill grandmothers, and eat babies.
Puh-leez, no one is going to miss a few babies and grandma’s…
In all seriousness though, there is legitimate philosophical background to justify video games as tools to develop moral decision making. It has been discussed here, in a decently well-written paper by Marcus Schulzke in the journal “Game Studies”, and today I’d like to give you a quick summary of the arguments made in the study, and why I agree with them.
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