Thesis and Ideas on Paper Direction

I am going to play the game Road Rash in which the player has to street race on motorcycles and the only way to win the race is by knocking off other players by beating them with pipes and chains and running from and beating up the cops. One idea I am thinking about for this game is to show that street racing leads to more serious crimes such as insurance fraud, theft, assault and robbery. In the you have to result to assault and in theory murder to win the game, therefore you go from illegal street racing to a much more serious offense, which shows that what some might consider a minor criminal offense can turn into much more.

Another idea I had about this paper was to show that there is no such thing as a victimless crime. When people street race they can hurt themselves and others, not just the other racers, but the other people in traffic and spectators. Someone who is driving to the grocery store has nothing to do with your race but if you hit them, they are a victim of your illegal activity. I want to explore how people think it is ethical to commit a crime that doesn't hurt anyone else but benefits you and how they do not realize how their actions can truly effect other people.

Finally I could talk about the ethics of crime in general and use street racing and Road rash as an example. Street racers seem to have their own code of ethics, such as secrecy and what they consider OK and not OK in a race. They also have ethics about telling what people have done to their cars or how fast they can run. They have their 'word' about what someone gets when they win a race and consequences if you don't give in after a loss. I feel like this however would be a much harder theory to use while using the game Road Rash as an example.