Very wrong for government to get involved with that part of life. I recall hearing a story about something similar from the UK, where two sons ended up "rescuing" their mother from an end-of-life home where she was not given the very basic care that would have actually solved her health problems, because dying was seen as a medically viable option. Eugenics was also very popular in the mid 1900s, but was abandoned not because it was a bad idea in theory, but rather because people were nowhere near responsible enough to administer such a program in practical application.
I'm a bit confused about the process here. Do the victims really have any special ability to identify fake pictures that any other reasonable person couldn't connect with them? It seems needlessly traumatizing to me.
Like a limited 'fake' world edifice structured through legal fictions like money, debt and contracts, which attempts to assert that it is significantly more powerful and pervasive than it actually is, through stories like The Matrix, to instill a sense of hopelessness upon anyone who even considers not submitting to it.
You get to feel like a super cool insider in a shadowy club secretly ruling over all the foolish little people who aren't clever enough to be deemed worthy of receiving dark money!
I mean, I do personally think that's an issue, but I think that it's an issue which has been thoroughly astroturfed so any time someone attempts to use that term to succinctly describe the issue it evokes an antagonistic paradigm which prevents discussion of the actual issues. That's actually a great example of how social media and journalism can be used to pre-program the conversation, to prevent real discourse.
The important thing to recognize is that the types of people who do these things will gladly use any issue at all which happens to serve their purposes. Treating the world as though certain issues are always good and other issues are always bad will make you easy prey for those such as them.
Hell, if you want conspiracy: They could train a generation from a specific culture on heroic epics, then train another generation of the global population with grievance porn to create villains.
You're thinking in far too limited a scope. It can be as basic as implanting certain ideas about how tasks are performed through the structure of gameplay.
Hell, it could just be implanting newly developed subliminal messaging through background acoustics, or adjusting the general mood of themes.
The missing piece that very few people want to touch is that, at the heart of the industry (as with all industry), they intend to use games as a mechanism for social control. That becomes extremely difficult if they can't change and adjust everything in response to modern issues.
I think honesty is the best policy even when it sucks for me, because that's the only way to actually grow and improve myself. The real world is infinite, but lies don't lead to anything.
Very wrong for government to get involved with that part of life. I recall hearing a story about something similar from the UK, where two sons ended up "rescuing" their mother from an end-of-life home where she was not given the very basic care that would have actually solved her health problems, because dying was seen as a medically viable option. Eugenics was also very popular in the mid 1900s, but was abandoned not because it was a bad idea in theory, but rather because people were nowhere near responsible enough to administer such a program in practical application.