Monday, February 13, 2012





The movie Gamer was a very interesting movie that had many similar characteristics of a person in our current society playing a character in current video games. In both circumstance the gamer can control the character and make him/her do whatever the gamer commands. This pretty much makes the gamer in control of the entire out come. However the one huge difference is that in the movie the gamer is in control of an actual human being. I truly believe that the ethics in the "Slayers" program in the movie is very wrong, the reason being is because the gamers are allowed to control actual humans in battle scenes. In these battle scenes if the gamer and the character both die only the gamer is the one who actually dies in real life while the gamer just loses the game and then can just get another character and play again. Even if the characters that are controlled are criminals who are on death row i still do not think they should be played in a game in which they can die for some gamers twisted pleasure. I also do not think that these inmates should die for the gamers entertainment just because the gamers want to play in these circumstances but they do not want to actually risk the actual life endangering experience. However in the "society" i believe that it is a different circumstance because the people actually let themselves be controlled in return they get paid. In my opinion if the person wants to get controlled they should not complain however if the character is a good person they should not be put to do unimaginable things that the Kable's wife would do. I also do believe that us humans do sell ourselves in other ways, the main reasons why we sell ourselves is because we either need money or if we just do not want to do hard labor.

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