- Question
Should people be prosecuted for crimes they commit in augmented reality?
As augmented reality blurs the virtual and the real, should acts committed in it carry legal consequences? This entry sets out the two positions on the question — that people should be prosecuted for crimes committed in augmented reality, and that they should not.
Position 1 of 2
Read this position →Yes, people should be prosecuted for crimes they commit in augmented reality
This position holds that acts carried out through augmented reality should carry the same legal consequences as acts carried out anywhere else, on the grounds that the medium is a delivery mechanism and the person harmed by it is real.
Position 2 of 2
Read this position →No, people should not be prosecuted for crimes they commit in augmented reality
This position holds that conduct inside augmented reality should not be charged as crime, treating it as simulation whose consequences belong to platform rules and civil remedies rather than to the criminal law and its penalties.