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> What's the difference between rules in a game of monopoly and laws governing corporate actions? Controlling a predator drone in real life vs in Call of Duty?
by cousin_it 17y ago
> What's the difference between rules in a game of monopoly and laws governing corporate actions? Controlling a predator drone in real life vs in Call of Duty?
Easy. The difference is morality. In real life the consequences of your actions can hurt other people. The "life is a game" position is amoral, as numerous writers have noted and as your Predator drone example eloquently shows.
- chrischen 17y agoNo, I meant the difference in skill. Your skills in any of those activities are at least somewhat interchangeable with real life. Monopoly is only amoral because in the subset of the universe we've isolated, we've taken out some of the details that would normally result in morality. You also don't have to worry about eating in monopoly, or in Call of Duty. That's why it's a subset. Rules in monopoly and rules governing corporate actions are analogous, not ==. That's what I meant by asking what's the difference. When you play monopoly it's like isolating variables so you can hone specific skills. Obviously playing monopoly does not equal an MBA, but that's because monopoly is a scaled down version of life only dealing with buying and owning property (and without concern for individual human lives), and it certainly can hone some business skills. But this is, to some degree at least, how all games are. Some games will be more of a waste of time, others less, some none.