The character of Miss Havisham warns us that we all have the potential to create tombs. As individuals we can create them in our homes. Collectively we can create them in other places. Death is more than a physical experience and we use the word to express more than the ending of physical life.
History warns us that when we dehumanise people or treat them as subhuman for whatever reason, prejudice, or ideology, it almost inevitably leads to genocide.
A church congregation were once asked by their minister to encapsulate their faith in 300 words? Not quoting one of the historic creeds, but their ‘creed’? If you can’t say what you believe in 300 words, what can you say?
We are creatures that cannot help ourselves but play and that can take many forms that can be encouraged. Fortunately some are engaging with these questions and those with eyes to see and ears to hear are beginning to reassess and appreciate the mass effect of games.