The Moral Responsibility of Game Creators

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday March 1, 2005 @08:41AM from the damned-if-you-do-damned-if-you-don't dept.

Gamasutra.com has reactions from another provocative question of the week. The topic this time was "Do game creators have any moral responsibilities in teaching values to their audience?" There were many responses on both sides of the issue. From the article: "A resounding NO. Do writers have that same responsibility? Actors? What other limitations would we put on them and our freedom of expression, in order to accomplish that lofty goal? Just ask Jerry Falwell, or the embittered ghost of Senator McCarthy for your answer... NO. Leave the morality lessons to the parents and the priests. They are quite good at their jobs. -Anonymous"

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Smaller and intimate by AtariAmarok · 2005-03-01 08:52 · Score: 0, Troll

"...priests work on a smaller but more intimate scale..."
This is hardly news

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Re:Rediculous question by gothzilla · 2005-03-01 09:46 · Score: 0, Troll

Just as the Founding Fathers of the USA should have been more responsible, civic minded people and followed the rules of England, right? Dumping all that tea into the Boston Harbor was an act of terrorism, wasn't it?