What's more important: winning or how you play the game?

winning as long as you don't cheat too much

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let's consider the two to be mutually exclusive, with no overlap between the two.

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Well that's stupid.

But in this stupid scenario, its how you play the game.

Unless I'm playing my friends in bar game, then its just winning at all costs.

How can playing the game and winning be mutually exclusive?

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For argument's sake, let's consider the two to be mutually exclusive, with no overlap between the two.

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Then that makes it ridiculously easy: how you play the game.

If you care about winning the game, you should care about the integrity of the game.

If there's no integrity, WTF is the point? What did you "win"?

I would rather be a trash talking a-hole and win over a good sport loser.

If you play the game correctly, you will win so I’m going with how you play.

This completely depends on the age group.

For young kids it's how you play
For high school and up it's winning

I've never lost a game of basketball with my friends and said well at least I played the game the right way.

How you play the game would be my answer but there are simply too many variables if they are mutually exclusive.

For example, pickup basketball. I could technically foul so hard when playing that it would knock out the other team's best players and force them to fill in with lesser players.

There is a balance that needs to taken into account that includes both winning and how you play the game.