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Saturday 7 August, 2010
Right off the bat with reading the title of this game without seeing or playing any of the game the obvious ethical issue is whether the existence of such a game is ethical. A year ago when I was at UCA I took an English comp class in which the whole semester was devoted to researching the Columbine shootings. It was a very long and depressing semester going over and over the events discussing who's to blame yadda yadda. I have to admit that just reading the title stirs emotion within me. I played the game for about an hour, the whole experience has been very eerie for me. Actually controlling Eric going into the basement and recording their last message, their language, even the computerized music of Nirvana was eerie knowing that Kurt Cobain shot his himself in the head with a shotgun in 94. I played as far as placing the bombs in the caf and then coming back outside, the hallway gave me problems especially since I didn't realize there were two separate places where there were two vending machines.
I believe that the existence of this game is unethical. I believed that even before I played the game. I just needed to find out why and make come up with an effective ethical argument. After much thought I found myself thinking in Kant terms which is unlike me. But I feel so strongly about this that I believe that Kant is needed to make a concrete distinction that has no wiggle room. I see Super Columbine Massacre RPG! as unethical because I think that there is a universal law that it is morally wrong to glorify a true event in history that was a criminal act towards minors. This is why I believe it to be unethical and the reason that me and I'm sure many others feel awkward playing this game.
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