Kunovski: but I don't understand this "just a game" defense - it's like someone shooting a mockumentary about a man raping, torturing and killing a woman. yes, it's just a movie... but why in f*cks name would anyone want to make or watch something like that?
Ditto...
Makes me wonder... What would happen if someone made a game where at the beginning it clearly states it's a game, then has a badly done N64 model begging for her life with a decent MP3 file and pleading you not to kill them, and you kill them because hey it's just a game...
But the simulation required you to be online to play at the time, and if you do happen to kill the virtual character, somewhere in the world a real woman strapped to a chair with a gun pointed at her only goes off if someone killed the virtual woman...
Later a photo is released of her being dead and even the MP3 voice of her pleading for her life that was released in the game. Does that person feel guilty for killing her even though it was '
just a game', and everything about it said it was a game? Not feel guilty because you killed a virtual simulation and should have no relevance to her coincidental death? Feel guilty for killing the virtual simulation, then devastated for finding out it extended to the real world?
It wouldn't be hard to do this
IRL either...
Makes me wonder if someone is going to try this except with rats in a cage across the room rigged with a spike trap; While in a game you have to clear a room of rats, the first
SHING/THUD you hear from an empty cage lets you know it's more than a game, do you then kill the other rats even though they are usually known as pests?
Wow... Now i'm scaring myself... But yeah, Just a game mentality or excuse doesn't quite mesh with me. I find it very hard to do something i wouldn't do for real unless its distanced from the actual mechanics. Reminds me a little of watching TotalBiscuit playing
This War Of Mine and he felt such remorse after he killed a armed woman while thinking she was a psychopath and then found out she was just guarding her family when her sister came down and started crying over her body...