Autoren:	Ulbricht, Samuel
Titel:	A Kantian response to the Gamer's Dilemma
Online-Publikationsdatum:	24-Aug-2023
Erscheinungsdatum:	2023
Sprache des Dokuments:	Englisch
Zusammenfassung/Abstract:	The Gamer’s Dilemma consists of three intuitively plausible but conficting assertions: (i) Virtual murder is morally permis sible. (ii) Virtual child molestation is morally forbidden. (iii) There is no relevant moral diference between virtual murder and virtual child molestation in computer games. Numerous attempts to resolve (or dissolve) the Gamer’s Dilemma line the feld of computer game ethics. Mostly, the phenomenon is approached using expressivist argumentation: Reprehensible virtual actions express something immoral in their performance but are not immoral by themselves. Consequentialists, on the other hand, claim that the immorality of virtual actions arises from their harmful consequences. I argue that both approaches have serious difculties meeting the moral challenge posed by the Gamer’s Dilemma. They tend to confuse the morality of in-game actions either with the morality of their real-world counterparts or with the morality of games as objects. Following this critical analysis, I will develop a Kantian argument and defend it against two objections. So far, deontological responses to the Gamer’s Dilemma have been sought in vain. Yet, with Kant, its moral challenge can be met by looking at the gamer’s reasons. From this perspective, the Gamer’s Dilemma is based on a false assumption: the moral status of gaming acts does not derive from a normative equation with their real-world counterparts but only from their justifcations.
DDC-Sachgruppe:	100 Philosophie 100 Philosophy
Veröffentlichende Institution:	Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Organisationseinheit:	FB 05 Philosophie und Philologie
Veröffentlichungsort:	Mainz
ROR:	https://ror.org/023b0x485
DOI:	http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-9481
Version:	Published version
Publikationstyp:	Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Nutzungsrechte:	CC BY
Informationen zu den Nutzungsrechten:	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Zeitschrift:	Ethics and information technology 25 3
Seitenzahl oder Artikelnummer:	39
Verlag:	Springer Science + Business Media B.V
Verlagsort:	Dordrecht u.a.
Erscheinungsdatum:	2023
ISSN:	1388-1957
DOI der Originalveröffentlichung:	10.1007/s10676-023-09710-0
Enthalten in den Sammlungen:	DFG-491381577-H