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- From: BWOOD@TrentU.ca
- Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds
- Subject: Re: SCI: Vr and Psychology
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.024239.22415@u.washington.edu>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 16:50:00 GMT
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- re: Bob Pendleton's question of ethics and childhood VR experiments:
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- Again
- I must ask whether it has become ethically acceptable to take small
- children to the movies, to let them watch cartoons all morning, to let them
- play Nintendo all day . . . . since most of our day to day worlds are
- "virtual" anyway, what's ethical and what's not? It seems to me that if
- we have ethical problems with VR and kids then we ought to be dealing with
- a host of other issues about virtual spaces and children. Instead, we're
- bringing TV's and computers in to the classroom: the classroom has thuz
- become a way to prepare children for the virtuality of their adult lives.
- In this case, why not VR?
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