This isn't so much an interactive fiction as a series of interactive vignettes. It's fairly hamfisted and ultimately about as deep as a ( livejournal quiz. )
You have a super rare blood type and a famous violinist needs you to stay in a hospital bed for 8 months to keep him alive. Wasn't this a House MD episode or something?
Actually, it's a classic ethics trolley-case, designed to argue the point that abortion is okay even if foetuses do have all the rights of people. (The way it's presented in the game totally misses the point: boredom is not what's important about the original version.)
Hrm. Actually, I think the train example (5 idiots in a minivan vs 1 man) is the trolley problem. Even the numbers match. The violinist is the violinist example you linked to.
In either case, yeah, the author kinda missed the point; in the trolley problem the man isn't related to you, it's a question of participating in the act that's the problem.
But knowing that these are existing ethics puzzles just makes me less interested in the 'game' and I'd probably dock it more points for unoriginality if it weren't already a 3.
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Actually, it's a classic ethics trolley-case, designed to argue the point that abortion is okay even if foetuses do have all the rights of people. (The way it's presented in the game totally misses the point: boredom is not what's important about the original version.)
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In either case, yeah, the author kinda missed the point; in the trolley problem the man isn't related to you, it's a question of participating in the act that's the problem.
But knowing that these are existing ethics puzzles just makes me less interested in the 'game' and I'd probably dock it more points for unoriginality if it weren't already a 3.
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