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    It is not the case that 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.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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    Reason for 2 of 2
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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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    • 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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