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From: Richard Bartle <76703.3042@compuserve.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 02:58:59 -0400
Organization: Kanga.Nu
Matthew Mihaly <diablo@best.com> writes:
>DAMN RIGHT. People play muds modeled after (admittedly very fictionalized)
>medieval/fantasy/classical worlds, where quick and violent death is a fact
>of life, where slavery is ok, where rape and infanticide are ok, and yet
>bitch and moan if their petty rl morals are offended, as if your morality
>irl is somehow more "right" than that which the gaming world is modeled
>on.
There's an interesting article on MUD morals in a MUDzine written
by one of my players:
http://www.lexley.freeserve.co.uk/issue3/mmorals.htm .
Her article on the psychology of PKs is also unusually perceptive:
http://www.lexley.freeserve.co.uk/issue1/nup.htm .
Richard
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