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Suffice it to say playing as one of these (which I'm currently doing) requires me to be an asshole (you need those defense bonuses), up to and including killing people I don't have to, people with sympathetic stories who just happened to cross me or whoever hired me. The darkest of the orders is the "Bleak Walkers", a mercenary order that emphasizes cruelty, mercilessness and aggression to preserve their reputation, so when they are hired it strikes fear into whomever they've agree to fight. Each order has its own philosophy and desired (and undesired) traits, which is directly relevant to the game as Paladins get defensive bonuses for acting in line with their order's ideology and defensive reductions for acting in opposition to it. In Pillars of Eternity you can choose to play as a Paladin, and when doing so you are given the choice of joining one of several orders.
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Some people might argue that just having a picture of it encourages the culture of CP, but if that were true wouldn't that mean violent video games encourages a culture of violence?Īre we not already there with movies, and are games not just a movie that requires interaction to progress the story?
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People who create new CP or buy new CP obviously need to be punished, but I'm not exactly convinced punishing those who acquired a picture of it through a torrent or whatever is actually helpful in preventing CP. Which is exactly what I'm referring to with pedophiles who trade pictures of child porn. It's similar to trying to curb elephant poaching by making ivory illegal everywhere.Īctually ivory is only illegal to sell or buy, not to *own* Child porn is illegal not only because of the moralities involved, but it also is meant to curb the making of _new_ child porn. After all, the best a video game could ever hope to achieve in terms of realism, is to be on par with modern day movies.īut this is different.
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In my opinion, criticism of violence and realism in games must also be applied to movies of the same genre, otherwise you are just unfairly singling out one facet of our media consumption while giving the rest a free pass. I think too many people forget that games are just movies that require interaction to progress the story. What does realism have to do with how and whether we "think" something is real? Do violent movies today make people think they are any more "real" then the cheesy horror films of the past? Watching a brutal, bloody and very "real" looking murder in a horror film does not have the same effect on me, and im willing to bet most others, as say watching a man get shot in the back eight times on the news. The better the virtual reality becomes, the less difference there will be. The thing is, the effect of an act on your conscience, doesn't depend on whether the act is real or not, it depends on whether you think it is real. It's easy enough to say "you're in a video game, you know it's not real", but what happens when we eventually do get to the point where simulations and games are indistinguishable from reality? I think that's the question. But it's an interesting thought when you apply the same principles to sex crimes.
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If games existed at an ultra high level of realism, if there was no actual visual or perceptual difference to killing someone on a digital battle field as there would be in real life, would you be okay playing them? If you were essentially committing a murder in full detail every time you played the game, would you still enjoy it? How would you feel if your friend was really really into such a game, a game that actually lets you feel and experience what it's really like to kill someone? I don't know if game makers would actually make video game violence so realistic even if they could. Many prosecutors are using these laws to punish consenting sexting teens, but that's another story entirely. Long story short, children get harmed when child porn is made. Child porn is illegal ostensibly because making it harms or takes advantage of a child whom the law says is unable to render consent. Yes, but you're leaving out the whole idea of there being a real person on the other end of that action getting hurt, as is I believe Nate's otherwise well written article. The events were real and terrible of course, but the picture copied back and forth between pedophiles are just digital banks of data. And the user will always know that.īut pictures of childporn aren't exactly "real" either. Should it be legal to rape and slay a virtual child?