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drgnknght's Grand Theft Auto - San Andreas (PS2)
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| [October 6, 2008 10:00:48 AM]
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The last time I played throught the game I saw that family seemed to be the one main values of the game. Not only for the fact that the main character came back to town for his mother but for the fact that he is sucked back into the brotherhood of the community as well.
From a Kantian stand point the main character has a moral duty to protect his family no matter what. Wheither its killing other gangsters, drug dealers, or anyone that gets in his way the main character believes he is doing the right thing.... his moral duty to keep his family and his brothers in arms safe from others who wish to do them harm.
The funny part is that it is still a wrong action because he is causing harm to others and putting himself in harms way. Even though he believes he is doing the right thing by doing so.
The main character so far from what I played never was conflicted in that fact either although it was mostly the beginning of the game I had played. But I'm pretty sure that maybe toward the middle or the end of the game the main character would start having a conflict of intrest in what his moral duty actually is and how to go about it in a different sort of way
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| [October 5, 2008 11:19:50 PM]
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Today's entry for the game is about the violence. In GTA its pretty much about gang violence or gangster mentality violence. If you really want to think of it from an ethical point of view its all about creating the betterment of happiness for your hommies or gang. So you go around beating up drug dealer, Coke-heads, and other gang members that try to pull anything on your turf.
There isn't just beatings that take place tho cause there is very much so a lot of gun violence because after all people these days don't just use good old fashion hand to hand weapons anymore. All in all a GTA game such as this always has a utilitarian kind of fell for the fact that what you do is create the greater happiness for your group and think about the consequences of your actions but only after your actions have taken place and the other groups may be after you.
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| [October 4, 2008 01:03:13 PM]
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GTA: San Andreas is a game where people lie cheat and steal things to get by in the game. That's how you complete the missions and challenges of the game. In this game there are many issues one in particular is race.
The story goes that the main character is a former African American Gangster who goes back to his home for his family. He now not only has to deal with his former friends from the gang but also has to deal with the rival gangs who i believe are both African American and Latin American. He also has to deal with the police, which i believe is the main reason he left town.
The reason why I think race is the main issue of this game is because of the fact that it is dealt in most major cities as well as suburbs. Now I'm not saying that all gangs are African American and Latin American. There are some White gangs out there like the KKK but the prodominate groups are African American and Latin American because in a lot of neighborhoods they sometimes have no choice and are pushed in that direction by the society that they have. In the case of San Andreas the main character was left town then came back because of his family so he had no choice but to be put back into the predicament that he was in before.
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