Virtual reality and game-like experiences can be intentio... — Carmelics

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Virtual reality and game-like experiences can be intentionally designed to positively influence viewers' moral attitudes toward contested social issues.

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Planned Parenthood's 2017 virtual reality experience, focused on the experience of accessing abortion in America, positively influenced the way viewers felt about harassment directed at patients, providers, and health center staff.
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1.Simulation of morally charged experiences risks what Baudrillard calls 'hyperreality,' where mediated encounters replace rather than illuminate genuine moral understanding.
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2.Attitudes measured immediately after emotionally immersive experiences reflect affective contagion, not durable moral belief revision, as Haidt's social intuitionist model predicts.
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3.Conflating short-term sympathetic feeling with positively influenced moral attitude commits a category error between emotion and reasoned normative commitment.
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