Poll: What would you save? All of your gaming accounts/memory, or a person?
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If it is just memory, saves, achievements and that stuff, then it is a real no brainer. If it is actual games, considering that I have well over 200, that is a lot of money lost for someone I don't know, so it's debatable there...
Where a equals religionZekksta said:
B equals humanity
And c equals morality
A+b=c
If a group preaches something, doesn't that something stem from the group?
This whole "treasured video games saves vs. random fellow" morality play sounds like a crap spin-off of saw.
Hm, this is interesting. I'd save the stranger, of course, because that's just how I am. So then I would lose all of my memories of the games I've played. So I'm curious...all the people I've met through games, would I forget them too? Because if so...that would be quite tragic.
Otherwise, I'd quite enjoy it because I'd be thrilled to be able to play games again for the first time, that naive joy from it. I very rarely get that feeling anymore.
Otherwise, I'd quite enjoy it because I'd be thrilled to be able to play games again for the first time, that naive joy from it. I very rarely get that feeling anymore.
The fact that almost 30% of people have said that they would rather save their games than a human life is appalling.
What people say they would do on the internet and what they would do in an real event are different because its easy to play an act from behind a screen so I don't think your answers are going to be terribly accurate.
Before answering these questions does anyone actually put themself in the victims prespective I wonder.
In short, game files can be regained in a few hours or days per game right? a stranger cannot come back from the dead however long you wait so I would have thought it a no brainer if you let someone die for a game file what right would make your life worth anything more to the next guy than the strangers did to you when its your turn to play the stranger.
Before answering these questions does anyone actually put themself in the victims prespective I wonder.
In short, game files can be regained in a few hours or days per game right? a stranger cannot come back from the dead however long you wait so I would have thought it a no brainer if you let someone die for a game file what right would make your life worth anything more to the next guy than the strangers did to you when its your turn to play the stranger.
I need a clarification for this. I do a lot of replica building and designing on the PC game Robot Arena 2, I've made almost 300 Robot Wars replicas. I consider them art, but it is technically data in a game. For the purpose of this argument, do I have to give my Robot Wars replicas up?
The rest of my collection I would sacrifice without question, but replica building in Robot Arena 2 is my hobby and livelihood. I'll talk more about it after I get this point cleared up.
The rest of my collection I would sacrifice without question, but replica building in Robot Arena 2 is my hobby and livelihood. I'll talk more about it after I get this point cleared up.
Tell that to people who love Minecraft.zehydra said:
Personally, I'd save the person. I would really regret it, but I'd save the person.
Also, lol at this. You don't need to have religion in order to have morality. Atheists have morality too, you know. There are books out there about atheistic morality, go look 'em up.Blank Kold said:
but why must one honor ones father? Rationality, he's of no use once he's out of his prime and should be abandoned or killed to preserve resources. But we keep our old alive because ofm mortality. So that turns into a sort of circular argument. Looking back onto civilizationst that were generally thought of as UN civilized, or immoral, you might see that they did kill their old, as well as their weak.Zekksta said:
...These are getting a bit silly right now, don't you think?
I can see it now:
Would you save a stranger or your favorite pair of shoes?
Would you save a stranger or your favorite blanket/stuffed animal from when you were a child?
Would you save a stranger or a piece of lint that's been in your pocket for years?
Would you save a stranger or just watch them die because you have nothing better to do?
At least put some thought into these so there's an actual moral dilemma here. Right now, I have to save a stranger, or lose some game saves and achievements (which don't actually mean anything or do anything)? I'll just tell the person to remind me not to try inFamous again before I save him (as I'd be forgetting how much I hate it, and get pissed off from playing it all over again if I didn't know better).
I can see it now:
Would you save a stranger or your favorite pair of shoes?
Would you save a stranger or your favorite blanket/stuffed animal from when you were a child?
Would you save a stranger or a piece of lint that's been in your pocket for years?
Would you save a stranger or just watch them die because you have nothing better to do?
At least put some thought into these so there's an actual moral dilemma here. Right now, I have to save a stranger, or lose some game saves and achievements (which don't actually mean anything or do anything)? I'll just tell the person to remind me not to try inFamous again before I save him (as I'd be forgetting how much I hate it, and get pissed off from playing it all over again if I didn't know better).
I was trying to out logic you.Zekksta said:
I never said that religion created morality, simply that morality stems from religion.
I'd finally be able to say that my gaming efforts were worth something, because their existence allowed me to purchase some one's life. Unlike the pet scenario, my data can be replaced with some effort. It may be an arduous task, but it can be done. My pets are as irreplaceable as a human life, even if their perceived value is far less than a human's.