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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 4107300" data-attributes="member: 4937">I would think that knowing what is moral doesn't make one necessarily any more moral.  So I would never think that pretending to be a moral hero would make you more moral, but I would believe that pretending to be a moral hero might (if you were a good pretender) tell you something about what a moral hero was.Oh, nothing.  But we might as well just ask, what's wrong with alot of catharsis, a lot of acting out?  And I think the answer is quite similar to the answer to the question, "What's wrong with pretending to be a moral hero but never actually trying to be one?"The corrolary being, the more sophisticated the mind, the greater the need for sophisticated play.  You can see this in children as they grow.  There play becomes more and more complex, right until most of them become adults and begin regressing because they decide they are too old for play.I'm not sure.  Sometimes out of the mouths of fools and children proceeds wisdom.  Sometimes words mean more than authors intend them to.  I find a tension between you claim that the more sophisticated the mind, the greater the need for play, and the claim that the other quoted statement doesn't have layers of meaning.  Play is strongly associated with learning.  I grant that some things can only be learned through experience, but play is widely regarded as preparation for the actual experience.</blockquote>