06-11-2007, 03:39 AM
[quote=Herr Mullen]
The universalistic judgement is not appropriate. The Church of England allows a parish autonomy to its churchs: it will be the cathedral itself with the issue, and if they don't want their property to be depicted in a computer game, that's their choice and it's their property and as such they have a right to say when it can and cannot be used in a medium or fashion which the parish has a moral issue against. Besides, not everybody has be welcome mass mediadom with open arms. Some people would prefer that places were not caught up in a value attached by a computer game: that someone would visit a cathedral based on its use in a computer game, rather than its architectural, religous, or historical significance would be to detract from the Cathedral's value in these other respects. If you were a worshipper at a cathedral such as this, you would not want to see a collection of tourists taking photographs of places as they loudly discribe the events that took place there in a computer game. If the church wants attention like this, then it will allow it but if it doesn't it'll sue, and since it's suing we can safely say that this is not the sort of thing Manchester Cathedral wants to be involved in and that's the Cathedral's choice and none of you have any business saying that it's idiotic because it isn't your place to say: you hold no ownership over it or the rights to its image. The churches discribed
The universalistic judgement is not appropriate. The Church of England allows a parish autonomy to its churchs: it will be the cathedral itself with the issue, and if they don't want their property to be depicted in a computer game, that's their choice and it's their property and as such they have a right to say when it can and cannot be used in a medium or fashion which the parish has a moral issue against. Besides, not everybody has be welcome mass mediadom with open arms. Some people would prefer that places were not caught up in a value attached by a computer game: that someone would visit a cathedral based on its use in a computer game, rather than its architectural, religous, or historical significance would be to detract from the Cathedral's value in these other respects. If you were a worshipper at a cathedral such as this, you would not want to see a collection of tourists taking photographs of places as they loudly discribe the events that took place there in a computer game. If the church wants attention like this, then it will allow it but if it doesn't it'll sue, and since it's suing we can safely say that this is not the sort of thing Manchester Cathedral wants to be involved in and that's the Cathedral's choice and none of you have any business saying that it's idiotic because it isn't your place to say: you hold no ownership over it or the rights to its image. The churches discribed