Resumen de Why Do We Care So Much About Mere Games? (And Is This Ethically Defensible?)
Human beings devote extraordinary amounts of time, energy, and attention to activities that, on their own, do not produce anything substantial. Yet we live in a world full of poverty, political injustice, AIDS, starvation, war, and any number of other pressing issues. This raises interesting ethical questions about the human tendency to care so much about mere games, rather like fi ddling with soccer while the world burns. This tendency to fi nd and play games, however, has roots deep in our evolutionary history. I claim that we grew up as a species with games as a constant companion. While the serious moral demands of life require that we keep games in some kind of reasonable perspective, work imperatives do not provide all that is needed for the good life. Our ancestors gravitated to the artifi cial problems provided by games, and so do we. Our passion for games is both very human and entirely understandable
