Selling movies or games a sin?

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Tomorrow I am meeting up with my friend to sell him this $60 game I bought twice (Call of Duty:Black Ops 2).

My question is: could selling violent games/movies to others be sinful? I’m probably just being scrupulous. It’s his decision to want to buy it though, right? I just don’t want to do anything wrong. I think the reason I’m thinking this could be wrong is me being an accomplice to his sin.
 
Eman_resu said:
Tomorrow I am meeting up with my friend to sell him this $60 game I bought twice (Call of Duty:Black Ops 2).

My question is: could selling violent games/movies to others be sinful? I’m probably just being scrupulous. It’s his decision to want to buy it though, right? I just don’t want to do anything wrong. I think the reason I’m thinking this could be wrong is me being an accomplice to his sin.
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Yes you are being scrupulous.
No it is not a sin.
 
Selling a movie or video game would only be a sin if you didn’t own the movie or game, aka. you either stole it from the store or from someone else. At least in this case, since you purchased the game, I see no issues with selling the game.
 
You seem to be getting responses that don’t adress the morality of the situation. If you are 17, then it is legal to buy these violent video games. It sounds like you are selling one of the copies to a friend that is underaged. If this is the case, it is a sin. However, aside from that issue, the real issue is the fact that violent video games don’t correlate to Catholic Church teachings.
 
D_glaze said:
You seem to be getting responses that don’t adress the morality of the situation. If you are 17, then it is legal to buy these violent video games. It sounds like you are selling one of the copies to a friend that is underaged. If this is the case, it is a sin. However, aside from that issue, the real issue is the fact that violent video games don’t correlate to Catholic Church teachings.
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The OP didn’t say that his friend was underage. If that’s what is going on and this whole thing is an attempt to circumvent the age restriction, then that would be a different story.
 
D_glaze said:
You seem to be getting responses that don’t adress the morality of the situation. If you are 17, then it is legal to buy these violent video games. It sounds like you are selling one of the copies to a friend that is underaged. If this is the case, it is a sin. However, aside from that issue, the real issue is the fact that violent video games don’t correlate to Catholic Church teachings.
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It’s not illegal for those under 17 to play the games, only to sell to people under 17. Like with rated R movies. It is illegal to sell a ticket to a rated R movie to someone under 17, but it is not illegal for someone under 17 to see such a movie with an adult. In the same way, the game ratings are recommendations. So it isn’t immoral to purchase such a game for someone under 17, it is just not recommended that they play it.
 
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