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Feb 3rd, 2014 at 01:11:29 - Grand Theft Auto San Andreas (PC) |
Just spent a long time writing a post and I supposed my login timed out... ug.
I am going to paraphrase.
Within the moral framework of the game so far CJ has done no wrong. All of his actions are for the benefit of others. He kills crack dealers because they are selling crack to his neighbors and ruining the moral of his gang.
As a player I don't have a choice, so I must empathize with CJ while playing or probably put down the controller.
All of the people I kill on missions are killed for good reasons. They are bad people and I am doing a good by removing their presence. It is yet to be determined if I am replacing their presence with a more morally sound one, but maybe that's not the point - CJ is cleaning his neighborhood of crack, and even though some of the methods are violent, the good outweighs the bad and CJ is motivated by friendship and loyalty.
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Jan 27th, 2014 at 16:56:57 - Grand Theft Auto San Andreas (PC) |
One of the early missions had CJ and his friend head out to cap the tags of a neighboring gang.
CJ recently returned from the East and is widely considered throughout his neighborhood an someone who deliberately left. He needs to regain his friends' trust. There are many motivators for this graffiti mission.
He slashes the graffiti for the greater good of his hood - the Grove Street gang will prove to not be push-overs and retain control of their space and their reputation. CJ will increase the trust of his friends, and they will think of him as less of a buster. Also he gains a needed $200. CJ's perspective of influence is not directed towards the whole of humanity or of the greater community, rather of his immediate community - the Grove Street gang. For the city graffiti is bad because it decreases property values by suggesting gang activity, and is considered an 'eyesore' to many. By tagging over the other gang's graffiti CJ is also promoting internal (city) violence and conflict, which is mostly an unproductive and negative thing. CJ is acting utilitarian to a limited perspective.
CJ wants his friends to trust him, so he does as they ask. Likewise if he asked them for a favor he would expect the same reaction. However these actions that he's asked to do are not ones that he would want to have done to him. CJ would not want one of his tags to be marked over, but he wants his friends to trust him and act on his word, so he does as they say. He's created a Kantian dilemma - he has to act a certain way to get his friends to act a certain way, but the actions he does is one he would not want to be done to him.
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