Having a Video Game Character Commit Adultery

[Eeveelution]

Alright, this has been bothering me for a couple days now. I downloaded the Sims 3: World Adventures to my cell phone (it's a version specially designed for cell phones), and while playing I had my character get married. Then I had him woo a built-in character who's married. While I did this, I wondered if she could get a divorce from her husband to marry mine for committing adultery. Then I was reminded of the 10 Commandments, one of which says you shouldn't commit adultery because it's a sin. Since then I've been having a little trouble with my conscience.

I'm not sure if having a character in a game that you control commit adultery is technically counted under the "no adultery" thing. Do you think it counts? It's been nagging at my conscience for a while now, and I can't stop thinking about it. It's not like multi-player games such as Second Life, since people have gotten married on it and then in real life, but it still bothers me. Opinions?

 

[Tailsy]

Um, they're video game characters. It's okay, man. They're not going to hell or whatever. o.o

 

[Autumn]

Um, they're video game characters. It's okay, man. They're not going to hell or whatever. o.o

I think Eeveelution's worried because she thinks she's gonna go to hell for making video game characters commit adultery.

 

[Adriane]

Sin is a societal construct and doesn't really exist.

 

[Jolty]

REPENT NOW
YOU CAN STILL SAVE YOURSELF

 

[Minish]

I'm not sure if having a character in a game that you control commit adultery is technically counted under the "no adultery" thing. Do you think it counts?

Uh... no. No, I really don't.

They're not real so unless you're thinking of emulating it in real life or think it's an acceptable way to behave it's probably going to be okay.

 

[spaekle]

...have you ever played a video game where you kill things?

 

[Espeon]

You can kill things on the Sims. :D
It's fun.

...do it.

I doubt you'll get any form of punishment anyway. If you really break it down, it really isn't going to have you sent to hell. They're not reall sentient. Just data. It's not like pornography or anything either. I doubt you're in any harm.

 

[Autumn]

If you're that worried about breaking the Ten Commandments with a game, then why the hell are you playing Pokémon, what with all the "IT'S THE WORK OF THE DEVIL" crap?

 

[Clover]

On the plus side, I don't think Pokémon games let you break any of the commandments...!

 

[Autumn]

On the plus side, I don't think Pokémon games let you break any of the commandments...!

The very basis of Colosseum and XD is that you go around stealing trainers' (admittedly shadow) Pokémon, which, while it may have a good purpose (to purify their hearts and all), would appear as flat-out pointless stealing to the trainers whose Pokémon they are. And, at least in Colosseum (haven't played XD so idk), before the main plot the player character was part of Team Snagem, which... went around stealing things, obviously.

I dunno why I'm still bothering to argue this point; there's no real reason for it.

 

[Sage Noctowl]

Yes, but you're not part of team Snagem anymore, you've been reformed, and given a second chance, just like Jonah. And what, are you going to let them suffer for being in the wrong hands of trainers? No, you have to help them, just like you can things taken away from you if you don't treat them right. I don't see your point. And half of "It's the work of the devil" stuff are jokes made by people who like to poke fun at religion.

 

[Aura Cobalt]

You know what, I've become such a moral relativist that I have actually come to the point of saying that while anything that could ever be done could concievably not be wrong, any immaginable act could also really truely be immoral, even if only a little bit. If you are having problems with your concious that is for you to decide.

It is not breaking the ten commandments.

Honestly you probably shouldn't really worry about it as much as you do.

 

[Bombsii]

The Sims is a simulation, you can't really sin if you didn't actually do anything. It isn't as if it caused any real harm to anybody.

 

[Sage Noctowl]

To Aura:
The problem with your theory is, moral relativity doesn't work as well in an organized religion as it does throughout the world. From a religious standpoint, when God made His rules, He had certain things in mind that would qualify to be so. Eeveelution is probably part of a certain sect of Christianity (Catholic, maybe?), which has certain ideas on the matter. Personally, if you go to church, you could ask your Pastor/ Father/ Church Leader/ Elder about it.

 

[Vladimir Putin's LJ]

Well in the Sims you're basically God so you can make up your own ten commandments!
Mine are all 'thou shalt not cook without skill points unless thou buyeth a fire alarm first.'

 

[ultraviolet]

Mine are all 'thou shalt not cook without skill points unless thou buyeth a fire alarm first.'

also 'don't delete the pool ladder after thou has entered the pool'

 

[Blastoise Fortooate]

'Buyeth a garbage disposal if thou doth not wisheth to have a burnt Vampyre.'

But no, sins as a whole are in shades of grey and don't really exist in videogames anyway.

 

[Teh Ebil Snorlax]

"if thou ist unable to doeth adequately in the game, thou might summoneth the magyckal gnome, though 'tis a cheap way out"

 

[Tarvos]

it's a video game