Watching "The Hand Game" — revision 43334

This was a session at the August 2018 Resilient Communities Mini-Unconference.

Judy: I also play Scrabble and Quirkle to get the highest combined score
Shawn: Competition can sometimes drive you to do your best and discover what's possible at the highest levels, but you have to know when it's appropriate
Brandon: Story about playing golf with a friend, at first feeling good when he missed a putt, then shifting to rooting for each other to do your best
Discussion about cheating in order to win, or finding loopholes in the rules
Brandon: The highest virtue and the worst of who we are are right next to each other, but very far away from doing it the way it's always been done
E.g. Rosa Parks breaking the rules
Argument about common sense as intrinsic human trait
Eric: I'm not sure if common sense is either common or sensical
Brandon and Eric: What seems obvious to one society is morally abhorrent to another, or just factually wrong (e.g. “homosexuality is wrong” or “the world is flat”)
Brandon: I realized that homosexuality isn't a choice through empathy with the suffering portrayed in the movie Philadelphia
Judy: I feel myself dragged down to having prejudice against people who don't seem to be operating on the basis of reality