Could bad things you do in games be construed as sins?

[Tentickles]

If I believed sin was real and actually effected our lives... which I dont, but anyway...

The only time I think it would be considered an actual sin is if your actions in a virtual world directly effect and/or cause the death of another human being.

 

[King of the Sandbox]

God's viewpoint on video games is kinda undefined. So.. should we launch a rocket with an xbox360 to heaven and wait for reactions?

I'm on the phone to NASA now.

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Why is no one picking up? (Ba-dum-tish)

 

[Twilight_guy]

Depends on your interpretation. I'd say that if you're doing things to NPCs then its more of a grey area depending on your mental state. (i.e. do you get the kind of perverse pleasure from killing things that serial killers do?). If you be a dick in an MMO then that's far more on the side of yes because your actions are hurting actual people.

 

[LarenzoAOG]

I'll start by saying I'm an athiest but I was joking about this with a Christian friend of mine...say, for example, you play a 'bad guy' in Oblivion. You lie, cheat, deceive, and steal, and you commit all these wrongs against innocents. Or in EVE Online, if you pull off a massive corporate heist or global scam, and that's an online game where other people will be affected, but it's not real money being stolen. Obviously none of this is real, but the question of morality is still there if the first thing you do when free of constraints is start stealing and killing.

(Just for the record, I'm not bashing anyone's play style, I too love being a completely evil bastard in Oblivion)

So what do you think, can you go to Hell for doing bad things in videogames, if it's a question of morals?

Does pretending to be Hannibal Lector make Anthony Hopkins a cannibal?

 

[BLAHwhatever]

God I hope not...the things I've done...they would have to create a new level of hell for me...

YOU LET SEPHIROTH KILL AERIS, DIDNT YOU?! GOD YOUR A HORRIBAD PERSON!

Seriously. The things I did in Fallout 1-3. I had a Fallout 3 playthrough wher I killed every person that was killable. So. Yeah. Hell for me. Charlie Manson x 100

 

[Tselis]

Only in the most conservative/fundamentalist view. If blowing off someone's nuts in a game helps you not do it in real life, then I'd say it's a blessing in disguise.

 

[LilithSlave]

Only in the most conservative/fundamentalist view.

I would say "most Christians". Then again, most Christians aren't that different from Fundamentalists. Fundamentalists are just typically more outspoken about their bigotry.

Most Christians are not Unitarian Anarchists.

 

[Cain_Zeros]

No. At least, not in single player, because you're not really doing them and you're the only real person involved. In multiplayer it might get a little iffier, but I'm still leaning heavily towards no.

Unless you design a captcha where one of the words is completely unreadable because there's a wavy line right through the most inconvenient fucking spot possible.

 

[Wintermoot]

since the game isn't real any things you do are also technically virtual (AKA not real).

 

[krazykidd]

Without wanting to get into a religous debate , i would say no . Why , because you are not actually hurting another person , but playing a game . I'm christian ( non catholic , not going into specifics ) and don't believe thinking of sin is a sin , it's in the action . Now acting out a murder in a video game is not a sin in say oblivion because there's no real person being affected .

For eve online however , it's when you do something like scam people on a great scale that it could be considered a sin ( i never really thought about it , it's a very interesting question you ask ). Like blowing up a persons ship is part of the game thats okay , but going out of the way to rob someone of their hard earned money is quite wrong .

Anyways my answer is no , unless you go out of your way to hurt real people .

 

[Zhukov]

11. Thou shalt show the greatest respect to pixels, code and voiceovers.