The reasons why games fascinate students are the following statements except that ______.

About the only thing I read carefully each day after break; fast is the sports page. That is almost the only place left in which you can still come to grips with the drama of Life as most people live it. On sports pages we still find cheating to be cheating, we find glory in what is earned, we find corruption and repentance, honor and competence, vanity and genuine humility.
    Students wonder why games fascinate them as they do. It is because they behold there something that need not exist, that could be otherwise, but which exists according to the rules, according to the drama of the game. We do not know how it will turn out. Our lives themselves are exactly like this if we think about it.
    Many scholars made the point that the world need not exist, but does. Games need not exist but do. Life cannot be properly lived and games cannot be properly played unless we know their order, how they proceed. As spectators we behold something unfold before us, how things will turn out, according to the rules of play that need not be, but are.
    Drama itself is like this unfolding also. Bloom in his Shakespeare’s Politics observes, speaking of Greek and English drama, that while watching a drama before us, we actually live a higher life than we do ordinarily, when we am mainly brushing our teeth or figuring out taxes. It is there in the unfolding plot that we see what is the human condition played out before us. We are struck by awe and pity and even fear as we see our lot. Aristotle says that games are not so exalted as drama, but nonetheless they are like unto it. They take place in freedom. We can see in them that there really are things that are worthy for their own sakes, "we suspect that there might be other things even more worthy".