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<blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 5706539" data-attributes="member: 54707"><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">I don't think I've ever played a video or computer game where I could be evil. I don't think I have any. I have played games, like Metal Gear, or Splinter Cell, or Deus Ex, where I could make moral decision in various shades of gray.</span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">For instance in Splinter Cell or Metal Gear, if I can accomplish a mission without killing someone, I'll try and go the non-lethal route if at all possible, and it doesn't endanger the mission or my comrades. If it does I don't mind killing bad guys. I'll look for any opportunity not to kill an innocent.</span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">I don't mind killing if I think it absolutely necessary, but it has never been a preference of mine. </span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">I guess that's why I don't play games where you play an evil character. I got no taste for killing to kill, or harming just for the hell of it. I won't even kill an animal or an insect just to do it. I like for things to live if they are no danger to others. And I guess that is sort of my personal definition of evil, harming others just to harm, or to see suffering, or to take pleasure in the destruction of another.</span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Killing I don't consider good, per se, as much as necessary sometimes. I'd rather kill a murderer than see the murderer kill another innocent. So I don't consider that evil. In an ideal world it wouldn't be necessary, but it's not an ideal world.</span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">On the other hand I do like tough moral dilemmas though. I actually prefer that in any kind of game I play. I often enjoy them in real life too.</span></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">So I guess no evil or neutral for me, but I like tough choices. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jack7, post: 5706539, member: 54707"] [FONT=Verdana]I don't think I've ever played a video or computer game where I could be evil. I don't think I have any. I have played games, like Metal Gear, or Splinter Cell, or Deus Ex, where I could make moral decision in various shades of gray.[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana] [/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]For instance in Splinter Cell or Metal Gear, if I can accomplish a mission without killing someone, I'll try and go the non-lethal route if at all possible, and it doesn't endanger the mission or my comrades. If it does I don't mind killing bad guys. I'll look for any opportunity not to kill an innocent.[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana] [/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]I don't mind killing if I think it absolutely necessary, but it has never been a preference of mine. [/FONT] [FONT=Verdana] [/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]I guess that's why I don't play games where you play an evil character. I got no taste for killing to kill, or harming just for the hell of it. I won't even kill an animal or an insect just to do it. I like for things to live if they are no danger to others. And I guess that is sort of my personal definition of evil, harming others just to harm, or to see suffering, or to take pleasure in the destruction of another.[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana] [/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]Killing I don't consider good, per se, as much as necessary sometimes. I'd rather kill a murderer than see the murderer kill another innocent. So I don't consider that evil. In an ideal world it wouldn't be necessary, but it's not an ideal world.[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana] [/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]On the other hand I do like tough moral dilemmas though. I actually prefer that in any kind of game I play. I often enjoy them in real life too.[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana] [/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]So I guess no evil or neutral for me, but I like tough choices. [/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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