1. Not the game. The game may be unfair, but it is unfair for everybody. it is not the fault of the game that
humans are infinitely fallible creatures who will seek to take advantage of its loopholes at every opportunity. Every person has a choice whether to engage in ethical behavior or not. One can take the easy way out, but there are no free passes for doing so.
2. If certain
people have advantages, it still does not give them the right to abuse them. As a
society, we have responsibilities to each other, to lift each other up rather than tear each other down. At
heart, we are all capable of
good, but too often we choose to see things in a zero-sum, win-lose dichotomy where the only thing that matters is getting ahead, and blaming the system is a convenient out. Using the system as an excuse is like saying the system allows us to buy guns, therefore you can’
t be held responsible for murdering someone.
3. Your anger at a certain person for cheating or otherwise engaging in unscrupulous or immoral behavior is totally justified. Do not take it lying down, and don’
t let them make excuses, you are worth far more than that.
4. Inversion of the popular idiom “Don’
t hate the
player, hate the game”.
People always tell me to hate the game, but the game didn’
t wrong me, the game didn’t force people to do anything but exercise their own ethical judgement. Therefore, I reserve my right to hate the
player.
