{"id":560,"date":"2021-03-25T06:00:45","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T06:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/?p=560"},"modified":"2021-05-05T06:05:47","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T06:05:47","slug":"episode-6-the-gamers-dilemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/?p=560","title":{"rendered":"Episode 6: The Gamer&#8217;s Dilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>[Release Date: Apr. 27, 2021]<\/strong> <em>Most gamers believe that there\u2019s nothing wrong with virtual murder in games.\u00a0 After all, none of it is real.\u00a0 No one is actually hurt.\u00a0 There is no murder.\u00a0 It\u2019s all just fantasy.\u00a0 It might even be a way for some people to release some steam.\u00a0 But, most gamers believe that there would be something very wrong with a game that included virtual pedophilia.\u00a0 But why is that?\u00a0 After all, none of it is real.\u00a0 No one is actually hurt.\u00a0 There is no molestation.\u00a0 It\u2019s all just fantasy.\u00a0 It might even be a way for some people to release some steam.\u00a0 Is virtual pedophilia really morally different from virtual murder in some substantial way?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed-podcast\/episode\/2F389ea8baqVxXPLWq3jl3\" width=\"100%\" height=\"232\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allow=\"encrypted-media\"><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Release Date: Apr. 27, 2021] Most gamers believe that there\u2019s nothing wrong with virtual murder in games.\u00a0 After all, none of it is real.\u00a0 No<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":561,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[37,26,38,39],"class_list":["post-560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-podcast","tag-lucks-dilemma","tag-video-game-ethics","tag-virtual-murder","tag-virtual-pedophilia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Second_Generation_Tween.jpg?fit=344%2C345&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=560"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":638,"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions\/638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}