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Tricking the other player is never justified? Did I miss something?
This site is supposed to be about rationality, but it's covertly about altruism.
Not that covert, really.
Which is just the opposite of what you'd expect--If I recall correctly, students who took game-theory-oriented economics classes became less altruistic, not more.
Possibly not the case - the studies you're probably thinking of used charities that did things like lobby for lower tuition and so on - exactly the sort of things you'd expect altruistic economists to oppose.
See for example Steven Landsburg on the subject