Playing as the Enemy

by Conor Friedersdorf

The next iteration of Medal of Honor, a video game, has a multiplayer mode that gamers will play on the Internet, where some people will play as the good guys, and others will play as the Taliban, trying their best to kill allied troops.

Via Jacob Sullum, a reaction from a writer at The New York Times:

If Medal of Honor let you play as the Taliban throughout an entire single-player campaign, then we would have a real controversy on our hands. Imagine the reaction to a...