When Games Test Your Morals

About this episode

The episode explores moral decision making in video games, particularly how choices reflect personal values and ethics.

Send us Fan Mail A cheap shot in a hockey game turns into an unexpectedly honest question: when someone crosses a line, do we stay calm and “take the penalty,” or do we swing back and call it justice? We follow that spark straight into the heart of moral decision making in video games, where a single dialogue option can feel like a personality test and an alignment system can become a real-life compass. We talk about the clearest morality meters in RPGs like Knights of the Old Republic...

People in this episode

Host: Daniel Kaufmann Ph.D.

Topics covered

• moral decision making
• video games
• RPGs
• dialogue options
• personality tests

Keywords

• morality
• video games
• Knights of the Old Republic
• RPGs
• decision making

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Knights of the Old Republic

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