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    Not all computer games should be condemned on moral groun... — Carmelics
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    Not all computer games should be condemned on moral grounds — only those where violent content inhibits moral growth.

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    • 1.Computer games can be designed to facilitate virtues such as empathy and cosmopolitan moral development.
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    • 2.Games that promote moral development do not share the moral deficiencies of games where violence inhibits such development.
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    • 1.Aristotle's habituation theory holds that repeated exposure to simulated acts shapes character regardless of the actor's reflective intent.
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    • 2.If virtual violence constitutes a form of habituated practice, then even games framed as morally neutral gradually cultivate vicious dispositions.
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    • 3.The claim's distinction between harmful and harmless violent games cannot survive Aristotelian habituation, which operates below conscious moral reasoning.
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    • 1.Mill's harm principle requires assessing aggregate social consequences, not merely individual moral development trajectories.
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    • 2.Normalizing violent content across a gaming culture produces diffuse harms—desensitization, distorted social norms—that transcend any single game's pedagogical framing.
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    • 3.A consequentialist calculus cannot vindicate violent games by pointing to individual virtue-promotion while ignoring systemic cultural desensitization effects documented by researchers like Craig Anderson.
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    The first moral impact one encounters when contemplating online games is the tendency for these games to portray violence, sexism, and sexual violence. There are many news stories that claim a cause and effect relationship between violence in computer games and real violence. The claim that violence in video games has a causal connection to actual violence has been strongly critiqued by the social scientist Christopher J. Ferguson (Ferguson 2007). However, Mark Coeckelbergh argues that since thi
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