Resumen de Suffering Play: Can the Time Spent on Play and Games be Justified in a Suffering World?
The world is full of suffering. How then can we justify spending time at play? Given certain utilitarian assumptions, it becomes clear that time spent playing could be put to better use. Furthermore, if a life could have been saved by working instead of playing a ¿round of golf,¿ then our passion for play and games is not only a matter of morality, but likewise a matter of life and death. In this article I argue that such thinking is confused; primarily about how we develop a healthy concern for other people. Using the idea of ¿mediating institutions,¿ play and games are defended on the grounds that human particularity necessitates learning compassion¿needed to reduce suffering¿through the kind of intimate human relationships found at play.
