{"id":136,"date":"2003-07-19T19:27:02","date_gmt":"2003-07-19T19:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:08:16","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:08:16","slug":"rawls_and_yugioh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=136","title":{"rendered":"Rawls and Yugioh"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just back from taking Littlest Guy to a Yugioh tournament at the local toy store; about 15 kids, ranging from 7 (him) to an estimated 25 (guy with his wife and baby) playing a role-playing<\/a> card game that is just astoundingly popular.<\/p>\n

In my spare time, I did addition and scorekeeping while I was reading my way through Rawls<\/a>, the ‘incidental time’ book I’ve been reading.<\/p>\n

As might be imagined from the wide discrepancy in ages and abilities, playing involved a number of controversies and adjustments on the part of the players.<\/p>\n

And as I sat there reading Chapter 3, I realized that I maybe would learn more about justice and fairness from watching and listening to the kids than I would by reading.<\/p>\n

So I watched and listened and learned. And yes, I think Rawls would have learned a lot as well.<\/p>\n

One of the major lessons – and what I see as one of the major flaws in Rawls. Fairness in games is crucial; if we feel the game is unfair, we won’t play. I saw it today, as the older players had to adjust their play to accomodate the younger, less experienced players – or else the younger players simply wouldn’t play. They would negotiate limits on the more experienced player’s gameplay, and where they couldn’t a reach satisfactory result, they would refuse to play.<\/p>\n

What does this imply for political society?<\/p>\n

Not much. It’s like this…my son could refuse to play this morning if he felt that the terms were unfair.<\/p>\n

But he can’t refuse to participate in political society.<\/p>\n

The classic restatement of the three laws of theremodynamics provide a lesson here:<\/p>\n

1. You can’t win.<\/p>\n

2. You can’t break even.<\/p>\n

3. You’ve gotta play<\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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