hyporational comments on Open Thread, November 23-30, 2013 - Less Wrong Discussion
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No it isn't. Why don't you try to crawl out of your typical mind space for a moment?
That's because it usually has good consequences for the player, the violence is cartoony, and NPCs don't really suffer. You could be an incredibly unempathethic person, and still not find hurting real people fun even in the gut level because it has so many other downsides than your mirror neurons firing.
I myself possess very little affective empathy, and find people suggesting that I therefore should be a sadist pretty insulting (and unempathetic). I'm also a doctor, so you people should tremble in fear for my patients :)
It's wrong.