ethics for my avatar

So as I have mentioned in my previous post I am in a class about virtual worlds and social media. I decided to dive a little more into some of the issues facing virtual worlds and social media most specially the ethical issues that face these medias. So I guess I will provide a little background. I am a devout Christian not a religious fanatic but a person who views life with the idea that the concepts presented in the Bible are true. Saying that I started to ask questions like “If you have sex with another person Avatar is that adultery?” And if it is then would having sex with a NPC in a virtual world be adultery. Then would killing another person in a game be murder? You can see where this can open up a whole new world of ethical questions. I am extremely curious person which is good. So I decided to do a little research and am still doing research I will give you some of what I find as I find it and would love to hear people’s feedback.

Identity scripts are just like computer scripts they must work within the environment that they were written for. A script that is written from another script is a mod or a patch the same can be said for our lives. Our past can be modified or patched to debug it. The question is are we writing our patches or are we allowing other people to write our patches.

Surrogate World

This was a post for my class, I felt like sharing it here.
In the movie Surrogate we see this world where people no longer meet in person but with their surrogate robots and they live through them. Do you see our world heading this way? Where we know longer meet to talk in our churches, coffeehouses and local community hang outs but we meet in our virtual worlds of facebook and Second Life. I see this as a scare for me because I read or hear of stories where people disappear in World of War Craft for days on end. I for one definitely get deeply involved in my virtual worlds, however I spend time working the tools of my trade. I am a Creator if you will, I want to contribute to humanity not have technology control . I influence with technology there is a huge difference with influence and control in technology. Information is no longer the power of technology, creation is the new power of technology. How can we use it to create and to influence humanity? This should be the new question.

Creation the new power

Information is power and the few wish to control it. That is what I believe, however with the invent of the internet it is impossible. I think the new power will be creation, what you can make from this new found information. You would think infinite possibilities would exist, I mean anything you need to know is right here. Instead people trade ideas in virtual worlds and create virtual things. What if we started to take this information and create real inventions? I thought 2010 would be the age of hover cars, transporters and we would have at least colonized the moon. Seriously what happen to creation.

Intro

So, what is it about people that they feel their personal information needs to be public information. For instance why do I feel this need to share my own thoughts and insights on a blog. In the hope of some great discovery? To share some deep spiritual connection? Seriously I don't know.
Take for instance, I am sitting at my favorite coffee shop and a woman walks in with her phone on speaker talking to someone about how one of her sons step children was found dead. The voice on the other side of the phone says “Was it suicide?” I am thinking why am I being drawn into this womans world. Is she wanting some type of connection that she is not getting from her home life and thus she feels this need to allow everyone in the coffee house to hear about her personal life? Is she seriously unaware that everyone in here can hear this conversation? Or does she just not really care?
I guess I will tell who ever reads these why I started this blog. I am in a class called Virtual Worlds and Social Media. And as part of my assignment I have started this blog. I am also in a class called interpersonal communication so in theory I am doing this blog for both classes. I might also just share some of my own Insight into my degree which is Information Security and Intelligence or what ever else I feel like blogging about.