Filozoficzna i psychologiczna analiza wyborów Moralnych w grze This War of Mine
Abstract
The moral choices made both in the context of everyday life and in the
reality of war fascinate psychologists and philosophers focused on
experimental research on intuition. In particular, in many psychological
articles, the decisions made by the subjects in different variations of the
trolley problem are analyzed. Most often, complex stories are presented
for respondents and they can choose between two or three options to
solve the problem, but it is required to indicate the option that
respondent would choose if he/she found himself in the described
situation. However, technological development allows the use of
increasingly emotionally engaging methods of putting subjects in such
dilemmas, including computer games such as This War of Mine, by 11
bit studios. In this paper selected moral choices that players in This War
of Mine are facing are considered together with the decisions that were
most often made in response to them, based on pilot study. The results
of these analyses will be combined with data from psychological
research on moral intuitions in various dilemma situations. The aim of
the proposed considerations will be to answer the question whether the
context of everyday life versus the reality of war affects the change of
intuition regarding just action. The significance of this kind of research
for philosophical inquiry into the ethics of war will also be discussed.