From: BWOOD@TrentU.ca
Subject: Re: SCI: Vr and Psychology
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 11:50 EST


	re: Bob Pendleton's question of ethics and childhood VR experiments:

	Again 
	I must ask whether it has become ethically acceptable to take small
children to the movies, to let them watch cartoons all morning, to let them
play Nintendo all day . . . . since most of our day to day worlds are 
"virtual" anyway, what's ethical and what's not? It seems to me that if 
we have ethical problems with VR and kids then we ought to be dealing with
a host of other issues about virtual spaces and children. Instead, we're
bringing TV's and computers in to the classroom: the classroom has thuz
become a way to prepare children for the virtuality of their adult lives.
In this case, why not VR?