Quote:Original post by all_names_taken Indeed, the whole equality is a blatant lie and attempt at political correctness that will probably backfire quite soon. To begin with, there are undeniable biological differences between genders - just take the example of pregnancy.
Well, that one guy had a baby, but that didn't stop him from running for governor.
Here are the questions: Question 1 What do you think about movies that depict violence?
Question 2 In many (the majority) of movies, woman are made beautiful or sexy. What is your perception of women?
Question 3 What do you think about movies where women get raped. Ex. Chitty Chitty Gangbang (Given the odds, must be a naff porn flick called that somewhere).
Question 4 In some movies violence are over-exaggerated to a degree that they might get banned from some countries. What do you think about that type of movies? Ex. Hostel.
Question 5 This question I ask because my teacher will probably flunk me if I doesn't ask it. Do you think violence in movies make kids, teens or adults more violent?
on a more serious note,
1) Just another form of entertainment. Besides, the perception of violence is subjective. Mario is murderer as much as Duke Nukem, he just squashes heads mercilessly, that bouncy little moustachio freak.
2) What I think of women is irrelevant really. The portrayal of women as sex object is just lame marketing strategies and targeted demographics. It's childish, immature, but boys will be boys, pure and simple. Tits and ass always sell more, whether it's ads, tabloids,magazines, cars, movies... But in general, I'm not complaining really, whether her feminist deviancy objects or not.
3) Trashy nonsense. This as got as much to do about game development and games in general than snuff films and donkey porn with the movie industry.
4) I don't like them, so I don't play them. Simple.
5) what if I say 'no' out of spite, will she flunk you? Does boxing make people more violent? How about movies? guns?
These questions are loaded, sensationalist, preconceived, and missing the point. Are they yours or hers? If hers, what's the ethics of teaching?
Quote:Original post by smc If the project is an ethical research project as applied to game development then your questions are not appropriate. More then likely you will not get the answers you are looking for with regard to ethics. Your questions are more along the lines of what game industry workers think, which in my mind is a survey and has nothing to do with ethics.
If you want to impress your teacher (and learn to think ethically) then apply utilitarian, deontologic or any other branch of ethics to the field. For instance you could use Ross' prima facie duties as applied to decision making during game development (as a whole or parts of). However, this is more along the lines of original work.
There has to published works on this topic. I suggest google scholar as a bare minimum starting point.
I do not have the requisite experience to answer your questions. However, I will say that I apply a blend of Rossian and Utilitarian ethics while designing and implementing software. Most of this is done during interface design (code and user). I also apply it when taking on new projects (i.e. Is the use of the software product ethical)
Did you forget Nietzsche? Nietzsche essentially argues in "Beyond good and evil" that applying logic or reasoning to ethics is a fallacy at best. So you could argue that making a survey instead of analysing shows great insight in the Nietzschean view of ethics :)
