Life is unfair...
This is a response I see a lot in response to ... well ... anything and everything. Someone mentions a game mechanic being unfair, someone replies life is unfair. No one would argue that life is fair. However, what about a game? This is a virtual world after all, created by people. Should it be inherently unfair? Should it be an extension of reality? It doesn't have to be. Why is it that the inequities in real life should be extended into a virtual world that people have created? Think what it says about us when in a world where there doesn't have to be scarcity or inequity that we manufacture those things. We introduce misery in to what can be a paradise. Just seems so unfair...
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Jareth: "You keep saying that, I wonder what your basis for comparison is?"
Labyrinth
Learn to handle your own instead of begging.
Begging? I asked why we would we create inequity when we could create a utopia. I got my answer, people like you. Always picking anger over thinking. Always with an insult instead honest debate. Always looking for the worst. Try looking for the good in people friends.
Actually, I misread you. You need lower than you, in a lower social caste if you will, to have a "fair " system. Interesting.
Really, who are we competing against? We don't really play each other.
Every game can be sparkly!
@Rumpelstilzchen Kudos for knowing your Bowie.
One of my favorite movies. RIP David..
And the next step, why would someone who pays to play want equality for those who don't. That would seem unfair to me, if I am P2P and you are not but you get the same thing as me. Sounds pretty unfair to me, and a quick way for a business model to fail.
I think you are correct in your assessment of effort and reward. But my point was more on the line of when someone claims the game is unfair, the response has been, "life is unfair". So there seems to be a need to extend any real/perceived unfairness in life to a virtual environment. Or to justify any real/perceived unfairness in that virtual environment with the inequity in real life. I find this an interesting phenomena, don't you?
All that aside, "life is unfair" is a figure of speech. I wouldn't over analyze it.