Week 5: Kant's Call of Duty

For Week 5 we had two tasks too complete first was to read chapter 4: Kant's Call of Duty and answer the following question 

What is the 'catagorical imperative'?

Another task is too listen to this podcast  The Economics of Good and Evil: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06ybnh1#play which i will talk more about in another post 

So for now i want to answer the question set What is Catagorical Imperative?

First of all i have no idea what this means before i read the chapter so first i want to see if i can find a briefly the meaning of this before reading the chapter what i found is that it means: (in Kantian ethics) an unconditional moral obligation which is binding in all circumstances and is not dependent on a person's inclination or purpose.

So my understanding is that its moral condition that will not change for any circumstances regardless of a person feeling on the subject and that they are driven by reason and rationale than as opposed to personal desires and goals so to Kant its when someone acts morally and rationally

in the book it talks about two formulations of Kant's theory the first formulation being that the person is driven by recourse to reason, in as much as it stipulates what the rational person ought to do in virtue of being a rational person

The second formulation involves in such a way as to treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of another, always at the same time as an end and never simply as a means.

in the book it disagrees with the first formulation and say it fails within single player games as their is not another person to consider when willing an action 

and the second formulation the same goes as there is not another person to act to in this scenario.

but what about multi player has implied the second formulation with bad sportsmanship and disrespecting others but that can occur even without the presence of STA's and with the first formulation that has agreed to enter the space know that several STA's can occur and if they do enter this space know full well that certain sta's do exist that cause distress then they are cause themselves harm and thus failing in there duty to protect themselves.

so this means that you should not engage with STA's because they are 'driven' by the sense of desire as opposed to reason and is likely people are to repeat STA's in reality as we are failing to do one's duty

which i'm sure i can't agree with by not engaging with STA's and ignore this problem unlike other media such as tv and film where they have explored many controversial issue's like rape, murder etc is something that needs to be recognize that exists and not hide under the carpet and its the game industry that need to challenge its maybe exploring these serious issues and not to glorify it in its game play