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    It is not the case that 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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    • 1.Kant's duty applies wherever we undertake commitments; joining a game creates genuine obligations requiring dutiful compliance.
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    • 2.Games demand integrity and fair play from motives of honor, not self-interest—meeting Kant's purity requirement in their own domain.
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    • 3.If moral categories don't apply to games, we cannot condemn cheating on moral grounds, only prudential ones—an unacceptable conclusion.
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    • 1.Kant distinguished moral duty from prudential/technical rules; game rules are constitutive conventions, not moral imperatives.
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    • 2.Moral worth requires autonomy and rational choice of duty; game membership is heteronomous—determined by arbitrary rule acceptance.
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    • 3.Kantian ethics demands universal rational principles; games are particular practices with local, contingent norms.
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