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Officially, of course, the industry shares my wife's concerns. But games that reward players for shooting, maiming or running over anything that moves represent a significant fraction of a total revenue stream that could top $7 billion this year--bigger even than the annual take from movie box-office receipts--and nobody is going to tighten that spigot without a fight. "Video games don't teach people to hate," said Douglas Lowenstein, president of the Interactive Digital Software Association, last week. "The entertainment-software industry has no reason to run and hide...
Pennsylvania plans to begin paying the relatives of organ donors $300 toward funeral expenses. It would be the first jurisdiction in the country to reward organ donation. Indeed, it might even be violating a 1984 federal law that declares organs a national resource not subject to compensation. Already there are voices opposing the very idea of pricing a kidney...
...objection is that Pennsylvania's idea will disproportionately affect the poor. The rich, it is argued, will not be moved by a $300 reward; it will be the poor who will succumb to the incentive and provide organs...
...couched in terms of normatives: "Well, because I should" or "Because it's important." But we can make no such excuses here. Toilet ball is easy and nonprestigious, but we love it all the same. The only reason to play is because you find some reward in doing so. There's no test at the end of the semester. Do as much of the reading as you feel like doing...
Playing toilet ball, like strumming a five-string guitar, must be its own reward. We do it because we love the feel of grass under our feet, the smell of lilac in the air. We play because we know that with only a month left until graduation, the marginal utility of an hour spent studying is less than that of an hour spent playing outside. We kick the tender two-ply tissue because it makes us laugh. We retrieve it from the bushes because somebody has to. We love it because somebody has to. We love it because...