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When people say the phrase "Don't hate the player, hate the game", it removes responsibility from the player (lemmy.world)
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I'm talking in the context of the "capitalist rules". If you say the aforementioned sentence, you remove the responsibility of the player by dismissing the fact that the winner makes the rules.

PS: Doesn't work for every context: if the player aims to change the rules because he doesn't like them, he might see winning as a way to change them. "You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain" I guess...

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[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I consider morality to be a societal representation of our social nature.

Imposition of "right" and "wrong" guidelines from outside are called "ethics".

[–] novibe@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

morality noun principles concerning the distinction between right and wrong or good and bad behaviour. "the matter boiled down to simple morality: innocent prisoners ought to be freed"

There isn’t much of a distinction between ethics and morality. Ethics is mostly spoken of as a philosophical question, and morality as an ideological one. Ethics is usually associated with the ancient Greeks, and morality to Christianity.

What I mean is that if we allow external entities and “authorities” to dictate to us what is right or wrong (an ideology, the Pope, a philosopher we like etc.), we aren’t living materially and objectively, but ideologically. We are being controlled by externalities.

[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You should also look up the definition of ethics, if you do so for morality:

ethics noun(used with a singular or plural verb): a system of moral principles: the ethics of a culture.

[–] novibe@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

Ok? Not sure what you mean by this hahaha