Chapter 2. Fair Games (Sample Paragraphs)

This chapter would demonstrate, by analysis of games, some basic characteristics of how fairness functions.

Life is a game in many senses. Human civilization is a grand social game throughout history and across all geographical boundaries. In our daily life the word game is mainly referred to various structured activities for enjoyment. Even though the game of life by and large and the games we play for fun at leisure time (hereafter it would be called normal game or game) bear very different meanings for most of us, they do share some common features and thus it could help us to understand the role of fairness in general by analyzing games of limited scope.

 

In spite of the entertaining nature of games, people would usually have much stricter demand of fairness in games than in many other everyday activities. No matter in intellectually oriented board games, physically intensified sport games, or even in random luck based gambling games, fairness is almost always the utmost concern for all the players or even all the viewers. It would normally be an unhappy or outrageous moment when cheating is caught even during a very casual game between acquaintances.