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Virtue, Empathy, and Vulnerability

Mark Coeckelbergh

In Karolien Poels & Steven Malliet (eds.), Vice City Virtue. Leuven: Acco Academic. pp. 89-105 (2011)

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May Kantians commit virtual killings that affect no other persons?Tobias Flattery - 2021 - Ethics and Information Technology 23 (4):751-762.details Are acts of violence performed in virtual environments ever morally wrong, even when no other persons are affected? While some such acts surely reflect deficient moral character, I focus on the moral rightness or wrongness of acts. Typically it’s thought that, on Kant’s moral theory, an act of virtual violence is morally wrong (i.e., violate the Categorical Imperative) only if the act mistreats another person. But I argue that, on Kant’s moral theory, some acts of virtual violence can be morally (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 4 citations
Enacting taboos as a means to an end; but what end? On the morality of motivations for child murder and paedophilia within gamespace.Garry Young - 2013 - Ethics and Information Technology 15 (1):13-23.details Video games are currently available which permit the virtual murder of children. No such games are presently available which permit virtual paedophilia. Does this disparity reflect a morally justifiable position? Focusing solely on different player motivations, I contrast two version of a fictitious game—one permitting the virtual murder of children, the other virtual paedophilia—in order to establish whether the selective prohibition of one activity over the other can be morally justified based on player motivation alone. I conclude that it cannot, (...) for reasons discussed. (shrink) Download Export citation Bookmark 11 citations

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