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(Young, 2016. <jats:italic>Resolving the gamer\u2019s dilemma.<\/jats:italic> London: Palgrave Macmillan.) In support of CEE, I argue that the various other attempts at either resolving, dissolving or resisting the dilemma are consistent with CEE\u2019s moral framework. That is, with its way of explaining what a claim to morality is, with how moral norms are established, with the role intuition is able to play in establishing these norms, and therefore with how the gamer\u2019s dilemma can be resolved. 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