Ethical Reflection on Ready Player One
I think that those two quotes extracted from the book represent most of the moral dilemma that the author wanted to depict in Ready Player One, which in my opinion is the question of whether creating a virtual world where everything is better and more fun, where most any dream can come true is a would be a good or bad idea. Part of it is reflected on the first quote from morrow, that talks about the most visible part of the dilemma on Ready Player One’s world, the fact that reality is just so awful that everyone that’s able rushes to the OASIS to forget about it and live a better life in there. Because of that the real world that was already very damaged and ravaged would only evolve for the worse due to neglect and lack of a sense of importance: if you can just escape the horrible reality there is no point on trying to make it better through effort, anything that you can’t solve easily you probably won’t because it’s just not worth it. The other quotation, from Halli