''This was a session at the August 2018 [[Resilient Communities Mini-Unconference]].''
== Attendees ==
* [[Brandon]] (convener)
* [[Ben]] (note-taker)
* [[Eric]]
* [[Shawn]]
* Judy
== Video ==
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JA4eXoc4I2o Kids play “The Hand Game” in Paul Krafel's What Is Possible class]
== Discussion ==
* 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