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It's a game. Stop manufacturing issues.
As far as the ethics of it, whatever, there are games where you can do worse. I just think it's annoying that the devs went this far out of their way to cynically controversy-bait up attention for themselves. There was no need for this - it adds nothing to the gameplay beyond shock value.
Thats half of the games steam page. They definitely play up the ethical dilemma aspect of the gameplay