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    A player who intends to break the rules whenever undetected is not really playing the game, even if no such opportunity arises.

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    • 1.Genuinely playing a game requires accepting the constitutive rules as binding on oneself.
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    • 2.A player who would break the rules when undetected has not accepted the constitutive rules as binding.
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    • 3.The absence of actual rule-breaking does not substitute for the absence of genuine acceptance of those rules.
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    • 1.Game participation is constituted by behavioral compliance with rules, not by internal motivational states regarding those rules.
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    • 2.Suits and Rawls both ground game-playing in the voluntary acceptance of rules as demonstrated through action, not through unexpressed dispositions.
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    • 3.A player who never breaks the rules satisfies every functional criterion of rule-acceptance that game membership requires, regardless of counterfactual intentions.
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    • 1.On a Kantian analysis, moral worth requires acting from duty, but game membership is not a moral category requiring purity of motive.
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    • 2.Bernard Suits's 'lusory attitude' requires accepting rules as means to the game's end, but this acceptance can be instrumentally rational without being categorical or unconditional.
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    The final element of gameplaying is attitudinal. Suits argues that, to play a game, one must have the ‘lusory attitude’. Players must commit themselves to playing in accordance with the rules that constitute the game just so that the game can take place. The type of motivation must be a particular kind (or at least must include motivation of a particular kind): players must respect the rules because they wish to play and they endorse the formalist view that breaking the rules necessarily ends th
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