morality
What Video Game Morality Says About You
Is it OK to be the bad guy when you're not really a bad guy? Or does playing evil reveal a dark side that you never recognized before?
This Character's Costume Was Too Sexy for 'Final Fantasy'
The side butt and upper butt were too much for some gamers.
The Beauty and Moral Ambiguity of Bullfighting
"When you come home, it's like you've been to the moon because there's no point in telling anybody. They don't understand."
Teenagers Are Having Sex in Extremely Odd Places
Teens are having sex with one another through smartphone screens, having sex with stuffed horses in Walmarts, and having sex with jihadists in the Islamic State.
Trap Keeper
In this comic, Panayiotis Terzis draws an age of brutality and beauty. The pleasure comes out of the pain, and the pain comes out of the pleasure.
Time Travel Is Totally Possible (in Virtual Reality)
Being able to go back and change the virtual past is an interesting psychological and philosophical option.
The Military Wants to Build 'Moral' Robots — And Yes, That's Scary
Navy-funded research into robots that can make moral decisions is troubling because of the way humans define military morality.
A Robot Made Me Do It
Studies suggest we will obey our future robot bosses. But what if a machine asked us to perform a morally objectionable task? Would we?
Would You Kill Someone to Save Five Others? Virtual Reality Tells the Truth
A train is charging toward a group of people. You have 10 seconds to either reroute it and intentionally kill a man, or do nothing and let the group die. What do you do, for real?
Philip K. Dick's 4-Dimensional Gun
3D-printed guns? Please. Here's what the late sci-fi master had to say about the ultimate weapon.