Wednesday 14 February, 2018

February 14, Wednesday
My second session of This Is The Police was quite interesting. I went from a casual police simulator with maybe somewhat adult themes to a full force HBO television series. During this gameplay session I kept in mind the idea of Utilitarianism because most people associate the idea of maintaining happiness for citizens with police since they help create peace within a city.
This idea of Utilitarianism for the citizens dissipated however with this second session when I realized that the police chief that we play as is not so in it for the citizens. In fact he works with the Mafia. Playing as a "corrupt" cop isn't the craziest stance to dissuade the playerbase to think that police are not utilitarian, but probably the most interesting proof of my original idea came from the city government within the game.
In order to appeal to citizens who may have appeared to have this sort of racist bias in the game. The city government wanted me to fire all african american cops in order to appeal to the city itself.
The idea of utilitarianism is to make the majority happy. To make decisions that will make as many people as happy as possible. The game has really made me consider that sometimes utilitarian ideas are not always moral.

Good job! I'm excited that you're excited to write about this game! It's interesting that you choose to play this game with utilitarianism in mind and that you wrote how that effected you in the process. Delving deeper into this moral framework and what the developers are trying to say through their game might lead to some interesting results.