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I don't see why people blame companies for this. Don't hate the player, hate the game. If you give the government the power to provide people with monopolies of

• macawfish 11y ago
  My comment was bitter, but it wasn't so much about blame or hate as it was about deep frustration. While I acknowledge that this is a systemic issue, it's an individual ethical issue too. There are individuals lobbying for the power to own entire species. That powerful people seriously think this way, let alone act on these beliefs, leaves me bewildered and upset. Beyond that, the player and the game are inseparable. The player you talk about, playing "the" game... they are playing a game. There is not one game. In the game I aspire to play, his rules are cheating. Now, I can't blame him on a human level for doing what his life has led him to do, for believing what his experiences have led him to believe. But I have extremely serious doubts about the consequences of this sort of belief system. In my worldview, this is a kind of fascism extended into the microbiological scale. That might seem far away, be we are entirely composed of microscopic ecosystems such as the ones that this "player" wants to insert his or her manipulative, magical control mechanisms into.