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From: Darryl.S.ONeill@Waterloo.attgis.com
Subject: Lesser crimes WAS Seven: The Text Adventure
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Date: Wed, 8 May 1996 03:04:35 GMT
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>Now, here's the question.  I don't think I'm quite twisted enough to 
>right a game like this (and remember, due to copyright issues, this game 
>really can't be written), but if you were to find it at ftp.gmd.de, 
>would you play it?  We have been chatting a lot about the morality of 
>interactive fiction, but what place would morality have in a game like 
>this?  Would the moral repugnance of the subject matter keep you from 
>pursuing the interactive experience?
>
>Simply put -- would you play it through to its conclusion?
>
>-- Russ

I found this post disturbing enough.  I don't think that I could do it.  But 
it might be very interesting to try a lesser crime.  An i-f game where you 
must pull off the perfect heist could be very interesting.

Darryl
