Fallout and Philosophy: Thinking Outside the Shelter (The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series)

Explore the deep philosophical questions lurking in the Fallout wasteland The Fallout franchise welcomes you to the Wasteland through both the post-nuclear role-playing games and the Amazon streaming series.Set against a retro-futuristic world of mutants, warlords, and weird science, the decent and wicked alike eke out survival despite the irradiated dangers surrounding them.But beneath the irreverent humor and constant violence, Fallout forces its players and characters into circumstances with weighty philosophical implications, and it compels fans of all stripes to consider complex, sometimes harrowing moral dilemmas.Fallout and Philosophy tackles these issues head-on.In the 26 essays included in this volume, philosophers follow the implications of Fallout’s dystopian world and the challenging questions it raises to their logical conclusions.Even if war never changes, could wars be waged justly?Is freedom possible in the closed and controlled world of the Vaults?Are “kill everything”