The "life's" in the games arent actual life, or even sentient, though. A smart android would understand.
I have wondered if the laws would change when we eventually develope AI in gamesthat could possibly be self aware, like the "programs" in the matrix (and as cool as they are, the wachowski's dont know shit about computers or programs....), would "killing" them or deleting them be murder?
I imagine killing them in the game would be like killing someone in a movie, a "special effect" they would really be "dead", per se. But deleting or corrupting their files on purpose would be on par with murder 1
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