The video gamer’s dilemmas

Ali, Rami

doi:10.1007/s10676-022-09638-x

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“…Moreover, significant long-term effects on the gamer's character from specific in-game actions are unlikely (Ferguson, 2 I thank two anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments, from which this chapter in particular has benefited substantially. 3 Despite a variety of recent attempts to narrow the dilemma down (Luck 2022;Montefiore & Formosa 2022) or to split it up (Ali 2022;Kjeldgaard-Christiansen 2020), I turn to the Gamer's Dilemma in its original form, which has lost none of its provocative power. Narrowing it down to particularly explosive cases is not necessary, since a full response to the Gamer's Dilemma should not only explain clearcut cases but rather resolve the moral conundrum for all conceivable cases.…”

Section: The Consequentialist Approachmentioning

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“…Accordingly, while different normative aspects may play a role in it, the Gamer's Dilemma is one dilemma that can be met with one response. Recently, Ali (2022) has questioned this, turning one dilemma into three, depending on whether we are talking about virtual or gaming actions, but he himself admits in footnote 10: "It may be that there is a more general resolution that addresses both types of acts, for instance, focusing on acts that are 'not real'" (Ali 2022). This is what I am aiming for.…”

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A Kantian response to the Gamer’s Dilemma

Ulbricht¹

2023

Ethics Inf Technol

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The Gamer’s Dilemma consists of three intuitively plausible but conflicting assertions: (i) Virtual murder is morally permissible. (ii) Virtual child molestation is morally forbidden. (iii) There is no relevant moral difference between virtual murder and virtual child molestation in computer games. Numerous attempts to resolve (or dissolve) the Gamer’s Dilemma line the field 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 difficulties 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 justifications.

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Section: The Consequentialist Approachmentioning

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Section: The Consequentialist Approachmentioning

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A Kantian response to the Gamer’s Dilemma

Ulbricht¹

2023

Ethics Inf Technol

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“…Consequently, access control measures must navigate the fine line between nurturing creativity and safeguarding sensitive information. Another crucial challenge involves ensuring interoperability and compatibility among diverse platforms and applications within the Metaverse (Lin & Latoschik, 2022;Bisht V. S et al, 2022;Ali, R., 2022). Given the diverse virtual environments users may traverse, each equipped with distinct access control mechanisms and authentication processes, harmonizing these mechanisms and enabling seamless access across platforms without compromising security is an intricate undertaking.…”

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Mitigating Risks in the Cloud-Based Metaverse Access Control Strategies and Techniques

Upadhyay,

Kumar,

Sharma

et al. 2023

International Journal of Cloud Applications and Computing

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The advent of the metaverse has revolutionized virtual interactions and navigation, introducing intricate access control challenges. This paper addresses the need for effective access control models in the cloud-based metaverse. It explores its distinct characteristics, including its dynamic nature, diverse user base, and shared spaces, highlighting privacy concerns and legal implications. The paper analyzes access control principles specific to the cloud-based metaverse, emphasizing least privilege, separation of duties, RBAC, defense-in-depth, and auditability/accountability. It delves into identity verification and authorization methods, such as biometrics, multi-factor authentication, and role-based/attribute-based authorization. Advanced access control technologies for the cloud-based metaverse are examined, including SSO solutions, blockchain-based access control, ABAC, adaptive access control, and VMI for isolation. Risk mitigation strategies encompass IDS/IPS, SIEM, and user education programs.

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Between death and suffering: resolving the gamer’s dilemma

Coghlan

Cox

2023

Ethics Inf Technol

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The gamer’s dilemma, initially proposed by Luck (Ethics and Information Technology 11(1):31–36, 2009) posits a moral comparison between in-game acts of murder and in-game acts of paedophilia within single-player videogames. Despite each activity lacking the obvious harms of their real-world equivalents, common intuitions suggest an important difference between them. Some responses to the dilemma suggest that intuitive responses to the two cases are based on important differences between the acts themselves or their social meaning. Others challenge the fundamental assumptions of the dilemma. In this paper, we identify and explore key imaginative and emotional differences in how certain types of in-game violence are experienced by players, consider how these differences factor into the moral lives of players, and use these insights to resolve the dilemma. The view we develop is that the key moral emotion in offensive video gameplay is self-repugnance. This is not repugnance of the act one directs a game character to perform in the game, nor repugnance of the character one plays. It is repugnance of oneself in playing the game. If self-repugnance is a fitting emotional response to playing a videogame, then this is prima facie grounds for thinking it is wrong to play the videogame. Our approach to the gamer’s dilemma is to distinguish the fittingness conditions of self-repugnance from the fittingness conditions of other moral emotions as they pertain to playing videogames. We argue that because of the virtual character of the actions performed in video games, self-repugnance is a fitting response to particular kinds of offensive gameplay. On the other hand, in-game murder is not invariably a fitting ground for self-repugnance. We argue that this difference is grounded in imaginative responses to the harm of death and the harms of profound suffering. Our task is to explain and justify this difference in fittingness conditions and use this to resolve the gamer’s dilemma.

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The video gamer’s dilemmas

Cited by 8 publications

References 17 publications

A Kantian response to the Gamer’s Dilemma

A Kantian response to the Gamer’s Dilemma

Mitigating Risks in the Cloud-Based Metaverse Access Control Strategies and Techniques

Between death and suffering: resolving the gamer’s dilemma

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