A Wolfenstein 3D mod ask you if it's right to kill a Nazi soldier

A provocative mod engaging with the question if it's right or not to punch a Nazi.
Text: Fabrizia Malgieri
Published 2017-02-08

Is it right or not to punch a Nazi? This is the moral question that Ramsey Nasser asked after seeing the incident which involved the white nationalist Richard Spencer, who was punched during Donald Trump's inauguration day. This violent episode prompted him to create, using open-source assets of the original Wolfenstein by id Software, a mod called Dialogue 3-D, that asks the player to think before he pulls the trigger or hits a Nazi soldier .

This mod, in fact, poses some questions to players, via text box, asking them to think before they commit an act of extreme violence. Here are some questions you can find there: "Has violent resistance ever solved anything?"; "Is it okay to deny fascists a platform?"; "Doesn't this make you the real Nazi?".

It's clear that the purpose of this mod is purely provocative, as it pushes to reflect whether to use violence to combat violence is to be considered right or not. Of course, we leave to you any moral interpretation of Dialogue 3-D.

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