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Virtual nonkilling spree

Mar 13, 2012 by Debra Bendis

In a blog post at the Wall Street Journal, Conor Dougherty describes a video game behavior that demonstrates what Century writer Scott Paeth calls "a distaste for playing evil." According to Dougherty, gamers are finding ways to take some of the most violent games and tweak characters or characters' behavior so that they participate in the game with one notable difference--they don't kill.

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Virtual good and evil

The moral complexity of video games

Mar 12, 2012 by Scott R. Paeth

Video games have the potential to aid in forming us as moral beings, for better and for worse.

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Briefly noted

Jan 26, 2010
About one-third of the countries in the world have high restrictions on religion, exposing almost 70 percent of the globe’s population to limitations on their faith, according to the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life. The analysis, released December 16, is based on reports from the U.S. State Department and human rights groups as well as national constitutions.