Objections to Ostritsch’s argument in “The amoralist challenge to gaming and the gamer’s moral obligation”

assertion that there is nothing intrinsically immoral about playing 'violent' video games, but nevertheless argues against the idea that the laconic mantra "it's just a game" is a legitimate rebuttal of all moral objections to (typically violent) video game content (Ostritsch 2017). Instead, Ostritsch argues that video games-or rather their respective gameplays considered holistically-should be the object of moral scrutiny and, where appropriate, liable to moral condemnation. In particular, he defends the following position: where a video game taken as a whole endorses an immoral worldview then the video game is immoral. He also argues that to enjoy such a game (based on a specific sense of enjoyment) is itself an immoral thing to do.