Philosophiraga: Episode Seven – World of Warcraft’s Corrupted Blood Incident

“I have come to the conclusion, after many years of sometimes sad experience, that you cannot come to any conclusion at all.”

– Vita Sackville-West

Welcome back, folks. Time for another episode of Philosophiraga, the podcast all about gaming and philosophy, and… a weird time it is, unfortunately.

This episode is about something that happened in World of Warcraft several years ago, something that I think is interesting and something from which I think we can learn to be more considerate of those less fortunate than us. It’s also an opportunity to think about how we actually learn things and gain knowledge – how is it possible that we can learn something about the real world from something other than the real world?

I think it’s worth stating outright, however, that if you’re finding things tough right now (because of the whole coronavirus situation, just to be totally unambiguous), listening to this story could be something that might not help with that stress. Hopefully it’s clear enough in the episode that I’m not suggesting that we should all be panicking or living in fear, but I still want to give you the opportunity to decide not to listen to a story about a virtual plague if you would prefer not to. There is a warning at the beginning of the episode, just to be sure.

All that said, I still think it’s an interesting subject and I hope that you find it interesting too.

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Though he’s been known by many names across the vast and peculiar landscape of the Internet, every iteration of The Sometimes Vaguely Philosophical Mage has shared an urge to look far too closely at tiny details and extrapolate huge, important-seeming conclusions. He now hosts Philosophiraga, the video games and philosophy podcast, for The Well-Red Mage, and can be found rambling about it and his other creative endeavours on Twitter.

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