Resolving the Gamer’s Dilemma Examining the Moral and Psychological Differences between Virtual Murder and Virtual Paedophilia /

• Main Author: Young, Garry (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Cyberpsychology
• Subjects: Psychology.; Ethics.; Crime > Sociological aspects.; Computer crimes.; Personality.; Social psychology.; Sexual behavior.; Sexual psychology.; Personality and Social Psychology.; Sexual Behavior.; Cybercrime.; Crime and Society.; Moral Philosophy.

This book explores the gamer’s dilemma, which lies at the heart of theorising about the morality of certain video game content. The dilemma is as follows: given that gaming content involves virtual characters within a virtual environment, the moral permission of virtual murder would also appear to m...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Introducing the Gamer’s Dilemma
• Chapter 2. Social Convention and the Likelihood of Harm: Luck’s Initial Attempts at Resolving the Dilemma
• Chapter 3. Motivation, Discrimination and Special Status: Luck’s Further Attempts at Resolving the Dilemma
• Chapter 4. Virtual Paedophilia as child pornography and the harm done to women: Bartel’s attempt at Resolving the Dilemma
• Chapter 5. Targeting Morally Irrelevant Characteristics and the Need for Context: Further Attempts at Resolving the Dilemma
• Chapter 6. A New Approach to Resolving the Gamer’s Dilemma: Applying Constructive Ecumenical Expressivism.