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"Morality Bites"

Morality Bites

Whilst re-playing Syphon Filter I hesitated before killing one of the targets that I always shot straight away – the scientists. To my horror they went down on their knees, put there hands behind there back and said ”I’m unarmed please don’t kill me!” But you have to! It’s horrible!

Now, if there’s a huge tiger and the only question is which one of us is going to get out of the quarry alive, then there’s on contest. And although it’s not altogether a fair fight – my pistols against his teeth and claws – if he gets close enough, he’ll do enough damage to kill me quicker than I can kill him. So sorry tiger, endangered or not, off you go to the great Safari Park in the sky!

I do have a problem with killing unarmed people, though, even if they’re not real, and especially if they are begging to be saved. But the mission can’t be completed without it. Medal Of Honour was the first game that this ever happened to me when you go round a corner and see a trio of soldiers sat smoking fags and you have crept up behind them, is it right to shoot them in the back??

Everything else that I have had to kill posed an immediate threat to me!

Does anyone else have a problem like mine?

I have to decided to not act like a wimp and take example of Pointless Babble!
Shoot first ask questions later!

Goatboy wrote:
> I was playing GTA3 on the PC last night, just motoring about in my
> nice shiny buggy and then someone rammed me from behind at a light.
> So I got out, yanked the lady out of her car and beat her with a
> baseball bat.
>
> And I laughed and laughed and laughed.

LOL

BF Injection? Thats an offense where the punishment goes way beyond death... mass homicide comes to mind.

I was playing GTA3 on the PC last night, just motoring about in my nice shiny buggy and then someone rammed me from behind at a light.
So I got out, yanked the lady out of her car and beat her with a baseball bat.

And I laughed and laughed and laughed.

If they're working for the other side, they're a threat - armed or not.

Okay, so they may be being forced to do things by the enemy. But unless your mission is to rescue them, kill them. If you don't, they'll be forced to continue working and come up with something that may kill you and those you hold dear.

Like numerous rocket scientists during the war, who have since been repatriated to both the US and Russia, where they worked not only on those nations space programs, but also on missile systems, leading to nuclear ICBMs and the Cold War. :-)

Damn straight! I love being evil.

*Pats cookie monster on the back*

See? Perfect example of how it ought to be done.

There was a scientist in return to castle wolfenstein, i put my MP40 in his face until he told me the information i need, and then he went down and was pleading for his life, i done the right thing....i pumped him full of lead!!

Don't be fooled mate... if that scientist was armed he'd have pumped you full of lead in 10 seconds flat. Remember Goldeneye? All those "innocent" little labcoats, and then one of them pulls out a pistol and starts firing, or throws a grenade at you, they're all threats to survival - they just don't know it yet. :P

I've adopted a very simple creed on this kind of game that poses moral dilemmas; shoot first, ask questions later. So far I haven't been killed once by any of the so called "innocents" in games like Virtua Cop 2 etc. Sure... they yell "don't shoot!", but thats just to give them the chance to pull an Uzi out and end your life, don't give them that oppurtunity - remember, he who dares, wins. ;)

*Blasting.

sorry.