[gameprogrammer] Re: Are AO games bad for CVs?

[Bob Pendleton <bob@pendleton.com>]

On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 10:23 +0100, Sam Nova wrote:
> > Here is something you should read:
> > 
> > <quotation>
> > In 1970 President Richard Nixon appointed the President's 
> > Commission on Obscenity and Pornography, also known as the 
> > Lockhart Commission. The commission's eighteen members spent 
> > over $2 million reviewing the extant research, interviewing 
> > experts, and also funding a survey of its own. The final 
> > report concluded that there was no evidence demonstrating any 
> > significant social harm from pornography depicting consenting 
> > adults, and recommended that existing obscenity laws should 
> > be repealed. President Nixon refused to accept either the 
> > report or the commission's conclusions. </quotation>
> > 
> > You really should look up that report. If you can find it.
> > 
> > To the best of my knowledge there is no, zero, zip, evidence 
> > that the availability of sexually explicit material depicting 
> > consenting adults does any damage to individuals or society. 
> > On the contrary, sexually open societies seem to have less 
> > problems with sexual crimes than do sexually repressive societies. 
> > 
> > If you can not personally verify that something is true, it 
> > probably isn't.
> 
> So that was before the 'computer' and 'vhs/dvd' age, where people had a
> much more limited access to porn and violent material. Just look back
> the last 10 years of games and see how much it changed.
> 
> I'm just saying that the report might not reflect the world we are
> living in now but at the same time I'm not saying that games and the
> movies are 'triggers' for bad behaviour. Would be great if they redid
> the research to get to the bottom of this. Sure you often see it in TV
> that some did some very limited research and yes, sometimes they say
> games are bad for you, but I see teachers, professors, shrinks say just
> the opposite (that games are not reasons for people going crazy). Guess
> we will never really know.
> 
> I guess it is down to the people who develop games to decide if they can
> accept the type of game they are developing. I'm much more into kids
> games now (got two kids myself) than I was before but I'm not skipping a
> session of Gears of War from time to time ;-)

I guess it is time to wrap up this discussion. It is of course all a
matter of your personal moral code and being able to look at your self
in the mirror. I have very strong feelings on these matters as do most
people. (I once quit the cushiest job in the world with a 6 figure
income because I could not stand working for what I consider to be an
immoral company.) 

The whole issue of what is and is not moral is one that we will not
solve on this list. I wish we could. The trouble is that any final
agreement on morality has to be accepted by all humans, it can not be
imposed by anyone on any else. (Of, course, that last statement is based
on my own views of morality which I know are not shared by many of
people I have met. :-)

	Bob Pendleton

> 
> -Sam
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> 
> > 
> > 	Bob Pendleton
> > 
> > 
> > > 
> > >         Hi,
> > >          
> > >         An adult site, SM stuff, offered me some really 
> > nice money for
> > >         a simple game, not bloddy, and I'm considering to make it.
> > >         Since this would be the first game with my name on it and
> > >         since I'm really serious about getting into game business I
> > >         would like to ask the professionals here: Should I 
> > accept the
> > >         offer? 
> > >         It's not about money, since I have a nicely well paid part
> > >         time job. But that's something I could in my free time,
> > >         quickly, nice payment, nice number of users and it's not
> > >         agains my religion (hehe). I WON'T do it just for 
> > the money, I
> > >         would do it ONLY if I can use it on my CV.
> > >         What do you think? A nice game studio would reject 
> > my CV if I
> > >         put a game like this into my application?
> > >          
> > >         Thanks,
> > >         Dirso
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
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