An extra point here, a bonus coin there…
Are you a cheater? And if so, have you ever given serious thought to the outcomes of your transgressions? If not then perhaps the words of a shiftless but thoughtful grasshopper will help you to see the error of your ways…
In his book The Grasshopper, the philosopher Bernard Suits argues that, “It is impossible for me to win the game and at the same time to break one of its rules. I do not have open to me the alternatives of winning the game honestly and winning the game by cheating, since in the latter case I would not be playing the game at all and thus could not, a fortiori win it.”