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"One might say there is an 'ethics barrier,' a speed above which ethics can no longer exist. After that point, the only remaining goal is to survive the immediate moment... Ethicality requires unhurried thinking."

~ Pekka Himanen, from The Hacker Ethic (2001), pp. 131-132

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Love it.

And this thought now came to my mind: are fast-paced videogames non-ethical by definition?

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Hmm... well, instinctively I'd lean toward "no," but I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on the question you posed there.

I've just started reading a book called "Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow." Early in the story the character designs a game.

I tried to put a quote from the book in this cast but seems to be too long, I'll break it into a thread under this comment.

I think such videogames are also by design a simple system with a small set of predefined rules. Without complexity there's probably no need for ethics.