Thursday 8 November, 2018

I noticed that there were really sad moments that really didn't have to do with the investigations or day to day police work. I noticed that in one of the "training", a narrative of domestic violence appeared, which is rather harsh. This game has so, so many moral issues, and a lot of things happen without really a need to. There was also the threat to kill all of my black officers, which scared me bad. A friend told me that in his play through, he didn't fire them thinking it was a meaningless threat, and they actually killed all the employees. I felt very bad, but firing them made me feel like it was sort of a win. The day to day work got even more intense too, like having to use force to keep a protest at bay, and even started to get hostage situations. In this game, I can see the moral and ethical issues of a corrupt government, and how certain entities can manipulate people into doing terrible things. Everything has it's consequences, and you are in charge of so many people's lives, jobs, and the citizen's safety.

You hint at a lot of interesting ethical topics in these gamelogs such as entities manipulating people into unethical acts and the ethical responsibilities/ramifications of being in charge of many interconnected people and entities. Additionally, once you’ve got an ethical question or ethical statement for the OPA you’ve got a lot of good gameplay examples to examine further, such as the player’s ties with Kuan-Yin and the player character being asked to fire the departments black officers amidst rising racial tensions.
Additionally, I found your discussion on how talking to your friend influenced your decision was really interesting because hearing about the results of your friend’s decisions both helped in influencing your gameplay decisions as well as your feelings of the outcomes. It made me think about how having pre-existing information on the outcome of a decision can influence our decision making and give a different context to our emotional reactions of the results of those decisions.