thread: 2009-07-13 : How About Some Q and A
On 2009-07-25, Callan wrote:
That's a bit of an odd question, Christian? It's like if I had said I was vegetarian and you wanted to know my previous meals - I'm obviously going to report the same thing again - an absence of meat.
Basically the typical place where this has come up is playing some sort of game with a child, like my son when he was younger and even now sometimes, around the nine year old mark - and at some point it becomes evident they can't handle the games commitments. Usually when it comes to losing, either in part, or totally.
In terms of adults, I just haven't encountered it, really. I have a friend who another friend tells me he cheats on dice rolls every so often. I haven't caught him in the act as yet, but it does make me think of whether I want to seriously play, or give up on really playing the game and play a different game that's just there to indulge his little power fantasy. But I haven't seen him cheat yet, in order to decide.
A real factor here is when an individual decides another individual isn't worthy or capable of moment to moment assent, to begin with. For some time period, like the rest of the day, or even longer.
Besides, I thought the whole thing people often seem to get excited about was the (literal?) integrity of an imagined world. That people adhere to the prior idea its a medieval world when in the moment to moment assent, they do whatever smaller events. In the smelly chamberlain example, they are breaking an even larger idea of who gets to say what. If they were to break the idea of a medieval world and pull out a mobile phone, wouldn't that spoil a game for you? Why doesn't breaking the rules on who decides if the chamberlain is smelly, also spoil the game for you just as much as a mobile popping out?
