From: Isidoro C Asse <asse+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: PHIL: virtual-worlds ethics
Date: Wed,  8 Nov 1995 11:36:14 -0500
Message-ID: <ckcBly600iWkI3oWxI@andrew.cmu.edu>
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA


From: Isidoro C Asse <asse+@andrew.cmu.edu>

    Hi, I'm writing a paper on virtual reality ethics, and I'm
interested in any insider's opinion, comment, forcast or experience on
the issue.

Will the ethics in virtual-worlds be the same as in real-life? A
typical example in discussions of the subject is: Is virtual child
pornography (that is, with a computer simulated child) "bad"? and why?
But that is only one aspect of the question, others range from
in-character and out-of-character ethical codes in MUDs, to whether it
is desirable for our society to 'live' in virtual worlds or not. I'm
also interested to know whether people have already now faced new
ethical conflicts while in a virtual world or virtual reality
application.