I guess my take is video games do not depict human life, thus do not devalue it.
That third definition of pornography strikes me as missing the word "sexual". By this definition, a video of hang gliding, sky diving or downhill skiing would be pornography.
Part of my attitude about violence in video games is due to my being non-immersive. Many, maybe the majority, of fen become one with a book or a game or a movie. I know while my older sister is reading a book, the rest of the world disappears, and only the world of the book is real to her. I'm not like that. When I shoot at the bogie on the screen, and it explodes in a cloud of red pixels, I do not feel like I have done violence, or harmed a person. I feel joy at achieving a level of eye-hand coordination. I don't anthropomorphise.
That's not a value judgement. I don't think it makes me any better or worse than those who can get into the game.
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Date: 2007-11-30 01:59 am (UTC)That third definition of pornography strikes me as missing the word "sexual". By this definition, a video of hang gliding, sky diving or downhill skiing would be pornography.
Part of my attitude about violence in video games is due to my being non-immersive. Many, maybe the majority, of fen become one with a book or a game or a movie. I know while my older sister is reading a book, the rest of the world disappears, and only the world of the book is real to her. I'm not like that. When I shoot at the bogie on the screen, and it explodes in a cloud of red pixels, I do not feel like I have done violence, or harmed a person. I feel joy at achieving a level of eye-hand coordination. I don't anthropomorphise.
That's not a value judgement. I don't think it makes me any better or worse than those who can get into the game.