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"Don't blame the game, blame the player" seems an apt summary of the TV series, "The Wire", in which cops and drug dealers and teachers and politicians are seen
by danso 8y ago
"Don't blame the game, blame the player" seems an apt summary of the TV series, "The Wire", in which cops and drug dealers and teachers and politicians are seen as being cyclically screwed by systemic failure.
So "blaming the game" ostensibly says that we should focus on fixing the system, and not blaming its individual "players" who are incentivized or even forced to fail/act wrongly. I'm sure you're aware that every professional sport has had in its history a number of rule changes to make the game safer or more well-run, and these rule changes have had far more systemic effect than just penalizing players and coaches.
- PavlovsCat 8y ago> So "blaming the game" ostensibly says that we should focus on fixing the system, Which is people interacting with people, and calling some of that "system". I asked, now what, what does it mean in practice... actually unpack these abstractions, and think through what those abstract words mean in practive step by step: it's all just people dealing with people. When the rules in a sport change, that means people discuss with others, maybe write stuff down, then referees learn their job based on those agreements, and actively enforce the rules. > these rule changes have had far more systemic effect than just penalizing players and coaches. That's like saying a beach has more of a systemic effect than the grains of sands it consists of. When "the rules get changed", that boils down to nothing but interaction between rule committees (or whatever the mechanism may be), refs, players and coaches.