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What I want to do in this article is to take the work from MaryamQ and ad another dimension to it. Lets broaden our horizon to other interesting theories. Not only the citizens need to reflect on morality but also the administrators should do so.

Maryam talks about what stages the various citizens are in and which stage of morality they have reached or did not reach for that matter.



1) eBaby’s merely act upon whatever gives them pleasure is “good” and whatever does not is “bad”.



2) eToddlers are learning the meaning of good and bad. They now know consequence of actions Like Maryam stated so eloquent:“Cheating is anathema, and consequences of actions carry more weight in moral judgment than the intentions behind an act.”



3) eGrownups have developed a mind of their own. They have gone their own path and make their own moral judgments.
(eRepulik Morality: How We Approach the Game ,day 1121,Life with MaryamQ)
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/erepulik-morality-how-we-approach-the-game-1605604/1/20

A different angle to look at things;

Now that we established the various stages of morality one can become in this eCommunity, we now look at how to become a well balanced eCitizen.



During the same period when Piaget walked around in eRepublic there was another brilliant gentleman that lived in the eUSA. His name was Carl Rogers and he had some great friends like Sartre and Maslow. He developed another way of thinking about psychology of mankind and called it Phenomenology.



This great gentleman created 15 statements so that the administrators from eRepublic would have a clue what they were doing with creating rules and changes in this elife. Knowing that the administrators have a ugh responsibility for the psychological welfare of their ecitizens. These statements were also developed to help ecitizens to reflect on one self.

1 ) eRepublic exist in a continually changing world of experience of which every ecitizen is the centre.
2 ) The ecitizen reacts to eRepublic as it is experienced and perceived. This perceptual field is "reality" for the individual ecitizen.
3 ) The ecitizen reacts as an organized whole to the situation in eRepublic and .a portion of the total perceptual field gradually becomes differentiated as the self.
4 ) As a result of interaction with the environment, and particularly as a result of evaluational interaction with other ecitizens, the structure of the self is formed - an organised, fluid but consistent conceptual pattern of perceptions of characteristics and relationships of the "I" or the "me", together with values attached to these concepts.
5 ) Every citizen has one basic tendency and striving - to actualize, maintain and enhance the experiencing self.
6 ) Behavior is basically the goal-directed attempt of the ecitizen to satisfy its needs as experienced, in the field as perceived.
7 ) Emotion accompanies, and in general facilitates, such goal directed behaviour, the kind of emotion being related to the perceived significance of the behaviour for the maintenance and enhancement of the ecitizenship .
8 ) Values experienced directly by the ecitizen, and in some instances are values introjected or taken over from other ecitizens, but perceived in distorted fashion, as if they had been experienced directly.
9 ) As experiences occur in the life of the individual, they are either, a) symbolized, perceived and organized into some relation to the self, b) ignored because there is no perceived relationship to the self structure, c) denied symbolization or given distorted symbolization because the experience is inconsistent with the structure of the self.
10 ) Most of the ways of behaving that are adopted by the citizen are those that are consistent with the concept of self.
11 ) Psychological adjustment exists when the concept of the self is such that all the sensory and visceral experiences of the citizen are, or may be, assimilated on a symbolic level into a consistent relationship with the concept of self.
12 ) Psychological maladjustment exists when the citizen denies awareness of significant sensory and visceral experiences, which consequently are not symbolized and organized into the gestalt of the self structure. When this situation exists, there is a basic or potential psychological tension.
13 ) Any experience which is inconsistent with the organization of the structure of the self may be perceived as a threat, and the more of these perceptions there are, the more rigidly the self structure is organized to maintain itself.
14 ) When the individual ecitizen perceives and accepts into one consistent and integrated system all his sensory and visceral experiences, then he is necessarily more understanding of others and is more accepting of others as separate individuals.
15 ) As the individual ecitizen perceives and accepts into his self structure more of his organic experiences, he finds that he is replacing his present value system - based extensively on introjections which have been distortedly symbolized - with a continuing organismic valuing process.


Are you a well balanced ecitizen?



Do you think eRepublic is a well balanced place to stay?