Violent video games and aggression.
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Need to use one of the ethical framework to analyze: Kantianism, Act Utilitarianism, Rule Utilitarianism, Social contract theory, virtue ethics. Reference for the framework can be found on Chapter 2: https://staff.emu.edu.tr/mobinabeheshti/Documents/courses/ITEC%20317/BookEthics%20for%20the%20information%20age.pdf Helpful points: https://ethics.csc.ncsu.edu/speech/freedom/violence/study.php Proposing: Violence in games leads aggressive behavior, especially to teenage. Though there’s a ESRB grading system, teenage could also access those games; Oppoising: Violence in games are mental release for people. Reduce aggressive behavior. Ethical discussion: 1. Based on utilitarianstic point of view, game increase the happiness level, so it is unethical to say game leads to aggresive behavior. 2. it is unethical to have a superficial rating system which merely serves as an ambiguous reminder. “To withhold information from someone who is trying to make a decision is to undermine that person’s rational abilities”