Just a thought that I had in the shower this morning and stuck a little bit. I'm not saying I'm totally behind this, but just thought it was interesting.
Firstly, the point of a game is to have fun. Some people say it is to win, but simply put, they're wrong. Winning is just an added bonus. Thus, if life is a game, the point to life is to have the most fun possible. This leads to a number of things, like keeping yourself in a good condition to be able to have fun in the future. Having more fun now, but in such a way as to reduce the amount of fun you can have in the future, may lead to having less fun overall.
Taking drinking as an example. Lots of people say it is fun to drink, to get wasted, to get off your face. However, this can adversely affect your future potential for having fun - you could get alcohol poisoning, injure yourself, drink and drive and have an accident, all manner of things. Though these aren't the norm, the norm is you're fine. Say 1 time out of 100 you get wasted something bad happens, ranging from the fairly bad to death. If you only get wasted once, your chances are good, but say you do it every weekend for two years, approximately 100 times, then you've got a 63% chance that at least once something bad will happen. 3 years, 78%, 4 years, 87% and 10 years 99%. Now, these bad things can clearly reduce your potential to have fun in the future, so moderating the amount you drink looks like a good idea, statistically.
The same argument can be made for a plethora of other things that people see as 'fun' such as taking drugs, kayaking down a river, having sex, tramping, etcetera. However, you can't just eliminate everything that has any potential chance of something bad happening, as then the amount of fun you'll have overall would also be reduced. So if you see life as a game, you've got to find the balance for what is the right level of risk to take in order to be likely to get the most fun overall. Then there is the luck factor, there are some people that do ridiculously dangerous things all their lives and nothing bad seems to come to them, while there are others who get messed up after the first attempt.
Just something to think about.
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