The immorality of computer games: Defending the endorsement view against Young’s objections

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Ethics and Information Technology (3):1-7 (2020)
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Garry Young has made three objections against Sebastian Ostritsch’s endorsement view on the immorality of computer games. In this paper, we want to defend the endorsement view against all three of them.

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Samuel Ulbricht
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
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Universität Stuttgart

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