Mx. Luna Corbden 🐸Apr 14, 2025

If you're playing a social deduction game, (say mafia werewolf, Among Us type video games, or a competition reality show like The Mole, Devil's Plan, or Million Dollar Secret), where everyone playing has consented to a ruleset where lying is a core component of the game, do you believe it is it immoral to lie during the course of the game?

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It is immoral to lie in this context.
5.4%
Here it is morally ok or even morally good to lie.
76.8%
I don't know.
7.1%
idk and this question makes me uncomfortable.
10.7%
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Show threadokf
@corbden I answered that it is immoral to lie in this context, but I would add the caveat that what one does and is prescribed in this context is _not_ lying in the same sense in which one lies outside the game, so lying in the internal sense is not immoral, but lying in the external sense is immoral. If I say something that is false in a context where it is known by every participant that what I said might be misleading, is that lying, really?
Apr 14, 2025 at 4:09pmWeb
Show threadMx. Luna Corbden 🐸Apr 14, 2025

@okf Interesting take. I think then that you've arrived at my own conclusion a different way. I would say in game context it is moral, (possibly even morally good because it provides the others with the experience they seek), but our outcomes in behavior are the same.

There's a wide variety of semantical ways that folks are thinking about this topic.