Rape on MUDS what the #@!*
How far is too far when creating identities in MUDs and actions that go on in them? For the main essay question for this paper I revisited Sherry Turkles reading “Who Am We?” and I found a couple of lines that really disturbed me. I quote…
“A 21 year old collage senior defends his violent characteristics as ‘something in me; but quite frankly I’d rather rape on MUDs where no one is harm is done.”
Now I am no expert in phycology, but Sherry Turkle is and at the end of the reading she explains that,
“If we cultivate our awareness of what stands behind out screens personae, we are more likely to succeed in using virtual experience for personal transformation.”
So as our 21-year-old college students claims, “no harm is done.” How about your own mind! If one keeps ‘acting out these situation’ according to Turkle has a high chance of developing that same nature in there real life.
What is most upsetting is there doesn’t seem to be anyone policing these sorts of things. So there doesn’t seem to be a ‘how far is to far’.
“A 21 year old collage senior defends his violent characteristics as ‘something in me; but quite frankly I’d rather rape on MUDs where no one is harm is done.”
Now I am no expert in phycology, but Sherry Turkle is and at the end of the reading she explains that,
“If we cultivate our awareness of what stands behind out screens personae, we are more likely to succeed in using virtual experience for personal transformation.”
So as our 21-year-old college students claims, “no harm is done.” How about your own mind! If one keeps ‘acting out these situation’ according to Turkle has a high chance of developing that same nature in there real life.
What is most upsetting is there doesn’t seem to be anyone policing these sorts of things. So there doesn’t seem to be a ‘how far is to far’.
posted by Anonymous at 11:44 pm
1 Comments:
I play a great deal of Grand Theft Auto. I don't plan on paying for a prostitute in real life, and then killing her to get the money back. Just as I don't plan to travel to Hell and battle Diablo in real life any time soon.
I play games because they can let me do things I cannot do in real life. I don't think there is a "how far is too far" thing, as I'm perfectly happy with someone with severe emotional problems to kill me in Counterstrike, just as long as they don't kill me in real life.
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