Gaming the System: A Philosophical Analysis Rules can be a boon. They clarify what is required of us and can steer us towards achieving laudable aims. However, rules canalso be pesky. Sometimes, they stand in our way. When this happens, what should we do? Some think that we should exploit the rules we’re subjected to so that they either stop hindering us or provide for us unusualopportunities.This kind of act is called “gaming the system,” and my dissertation is a philosophical analysis of this act that attemptsto make sense of the act both conceptually and normatively.