Timeline for Ethics in video games: idol worship
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| Oct 4, 2023 at 8:23 | history | edited | unforgettableidSupportsMonica | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 4, 2023 at 0:46 | comment | added | Rabbi Kaii | @unforgettableidSupportsMonica is this question about Smite by any chance? | |
| May 28, 2023 at 7:38 | history | edited | unforgettableidSupportsMonica | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 29, 2019 at 18:28 | comment | added | Silver | If you're already editing the source code, why not change praying, kneeling, and sacrificing to more halachically benign actions like Rubiks-cubing, break-dancing, and eating nachos. | |
| Feb 19, 2019 at 13:41 | comment | added | Levi | 1. Although you’re acting in a imaginary world, it’s like saying idolatry is fine as long as it exist in the imaginary world of your head but not practicise it in the outside world. Doesn’t HaShem want’s our inside to fit our outside behaviour? 2. ‘Don’t take His name in vain’ comes to mind, but this seems to be comparable to the situation in which the golden calf was called ‘our G-d’ (Nehemia 9:18). | |
| Feb 18, 2019 at 3:54 | answer | added | postinganonymously | timeline score: 8 | |
| Nov 5, 2018 at 17:01 | answer | added | RibbisRabbiAndMore | timeline score: 2 | |
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:41 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Oct 9, 2015 at 7:12 | comment | added | Daniel ben Noach | What about games like the Civilization series that have no real acts of “worship”, but do use real-world religious symbols? Are you required to pick Judaism as your empire's state religion? | |
| Oct 14, 2014 at 19:04 | comment | added | Codes with Hammer | If the answers discussing fictional characters' beliefs are not sufficient, I recommend attempting to Ascend using the Atheist challenge. | |
| Sep 23, 2013 at 10:43 | comment | added | user4951 | I wonder if you can worship another God in movie? Some jewish actor plays in the Passion movie. What about cursing God in movie, like what Goliath did in David vs Goliath movie. | |
| May 30, 2013 at 3:25 | history | edited | unforgettableidSupportsMonica | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 29, 2013 at 23:05 | comment | added | unforgettableidSupportsMonica | Related: "May I play a computer game which includes Greek mythological creatures?" | |
| May 29, 2013 at 22:56 | vote | accept | unforgettableidSupportsMonica | ||
| May 29, 2013 at 22:55 | answer | added | unforgettableidSupportsMonica | timeline score: 14 | |
| May 29, 2013 at 22:53 | history | edited | unforgettableidSupportsMonica | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 14, 2013 at 14:18 | answer | added | Ess Kay | timeline score: 0 | |
| May 14, 2013 at 5:37 | history | protected | ertert3terte | ||
| May 13, 2013 at 20:28 | comment | added | Monica Cellio | @CharlesKoppelman, Diablo vs Second Life is a good way to put it (as best I can tell, having played neither). I think D&D is more like Diablo than SL, but it was popular for long enough that there may well be psak about it. | |
| May 13, 2013 at 20:13 | comment | added | Charles Koppelman | I'd look into psaks on Dungeons & Dragons. | |
| May 13, 2013 at 20:12 | comment | added | Charles Koppelman | @MonicaCellio so we are distinguishing, say Diablo, from Second Life? | |
| May 12, 2013 at 8:34 | answer | added | rosen | timeline score: 3 | |
| Apr 21, 2013 at 6:06 | comment | added | Isaac Moses♦ | @sam, If you can point to a source that addresses violent games, that may indeed be very useful toward addressing this question. It seems to me, though, that one may distinguish between simulated killing and simulated worship. Given that worship is largely an act of the mind ("'avoda shebeleiv"), simulated worship could be considered to have a much stronger association with actual worship than simulated killing has with actual killing. | |
| Apr 21, 2013 at 5:10 | history | edited | msh210♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 21, 2013 at 2:23 | comment | added | sam | How is killing any different in a game? | |
| Apr 19, 2013 at 23:03 | comment | added | unforgettableidSupportsMonica | @MonicaCellio: In the game, I do not play myself: I play a fictional character, such as a warrior or an archer. But when the game asks me to name the character, I might enter my real name: this makes the game assign a sensible filename to my saved game data file. | |
| Apr 19, 2013 at 22:55 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackJudaism/status/325382230396502016 | ||
| Apr 19, 2013 at 22:33 | comment | added | Monica Cellio | Just to be precise: when you play this game you are controlling a character and it does this "worship", and also this character is not a direct representation of you (though you control its decisions). Right? As opposed to a game where you're "playing yourself", i.e. the character's abilities are based on your physical attributes etc. | |
| Apr 19, 2013 at 21:10 | history | edited | unforgettableidSupportsMonica | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 19, 2013 at 21:01 | comment | added | Menachem | related? kotaku.com/… | |
| Apr 19, 2013 at 20:44 | comment | added | Daniel | Somewhat related: judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/28058/… | |
| Apr 19, 2013 at 20:34 | comment | added | Isaac Moses♦ | Interesting question. Some related cases that may have rulings: violent video games, reading about idolatry, acting out idolatry in a play. | |
| Apr 19, 2013 at 20:26 | comment | added | unforgettableidSupportsMonica | Note: I have already tried various Google searches, such as [ halacha computer | video game idol | deity | zara | zarah ]. None have helped. | |
| Apr 19, 2013 at 20:19 | history | asked | unforgettableidSupportsMonica | CC BY-SA 3.0 |