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Saturday 4 October, 2008
So my second day playing San Andreas and I am starting to remember why I use to play these types of video games. This game was fun to play sometimes, not so much to try and beat it or progress through the game, but to sometimes just vent some of my frustration out by destroying as many things as I could. Or something else I use to love to do, was to see how many stars I could get and see how long I could last before I got killed by the police. Fun stuff.
Now, back to the actual game play (with the story line). I wondered if any else noticed the lack of religion that is in this game? The first time I realized this was at the beginning of the game when the character Smoke says its like in the 'Good Book', which of course is referring to the Bible. Then, CJ's (the main character) reply is "What *****in book?". This was interesting to me as when I think back to it, it almost seems like foreshadowing to the idea of a world without religion or moral consequences. I don't think this cut-scene really made a very big impression on me the first time I saw it. I was just really wanting to get to the game play and wasn't really focusing on the cut-scene. However, during the game play, I got this feeling of absolute freedom within the game. This feeling that I could do anything with no consequences; a world without morality. Interesting.
On another topic, I also found it interesting as CJ moved through the start of the game, he is driven by this idea to reunite the 'ballers' (his gang). What I found entertaining was the part where he goes to the crack house and kills the drug dealers because the drugs had taken over the lives of many of his old gang members. For some reason, this shows a close relationship to the idea of Kantianism. CJ has this good will to try and make sure no of his friends are hurt by drugs so he, goes out and kills the drug dealers. Because this appears to be CJ's good will, would this make it moral? Is it immoral to kill criminals? Is this not what we do when we use the death penalty ? Very interesting.
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