The argument of "might is right" still seems alive and well (Poor Socrates must be crying in his beer right now). These games can be more than the sum of their parts, but for some i guess the most obvious logic wins... At their best these games are more than a system and if this is accepted require more than mere system to flourish.
Honour and fairness seems to be foreign words these days. The "drive-by spitters" (my term for those who behave worse than animals when possessing the anonymity the net affords) seem to be sadly the norm. Its ultimately a question of conscience and if some people willfully train etc... to impede another's attempt and that satisfies their conscience then i guess i must have a different definition of the word.
A famous psychiatrist once said to me, "people don't change" i always argued contrary to this point, otherwise we are all almost certainly doomed if she was right. Reading these posts, the attitudes, assumptions and lies i am beginning to wonder... Maybe Callicles was right. I do hope not.
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04-16-2012, 09:43 PM
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