From: crispin@csd.uwo.ca (Crispin Cowan)
Subject: Re: Wargames and Virtual Worlds (Was Re: Questions about BattleTech)
Date: 26 Apr 91 19:00:32 GMT
Organization: University of Western Ontario, London, Ont.



In article <1991Apr26.072659.17771@milton.u.washington.edu> cyberoid@milton.u.
washington.edu (Bob Jacobson) writes:
>Recently I had the chance to see the promotional videotape for a virtual
>world wargame similar to BattleTech, but intended to produce a more
>inclusive visual and audio experience -- W Industries' "Virtuality" (a
>term which W Industries has trademarked).

>[Virtuality is a violent wargame, and academics at a conference didn't
>like that]

>My own inclination is to call these systems devices of the Devil, but
>merely bashing technology doesn't get to the ideas and persuasions that
>leads to such aberrations.  How do you feel about the virtual wargames?
I feel that telling other people that what they're doing is wrong just
because it isn't to your taste is being judgemental.  In a free and
democratic society, we should not sit in judgement of someone else's
choice of subject matter.  If W Industries can make money doing this,
more power to them.

Crispin
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