The Sims and Human Nature

I admit that I'm not much into video games and such. But yesterday, my daughter purchased a game called "The Sims." Apparently, this little neighborhood of people starts life together. You create a person and you live an imaginary life through these digital folks. You gotta get a job. You gotta feed the baby. You build/furnish your home. The other neighbors can be in bad moods. Stuff like that.

Later, my daughter is on the phone getting "cheat codes" from some friends that also play the game. She now has over half a million bucks and has figured out a way to avoid buying food (while still staying healthy) and she purchased a robot to keep her house clean so she wouldn't have to do chores. She figured out a way to delete the mailbox, so now bills can't get delivered to her so everything's free.

Even in this computer world, you can still see revelations of "human" nature.