Is winning the most important thing?

If you don't win, you're considered a "loser," but is that fair? Is that the right message to send to people - winning at all cost? If you rank winning as the most important thing, there are things you will rate below winning, like being nice to people. This is the wrong message to send, especially to children, who end growing up with this competitive mentality that damages their relationships as well as their perspectives on life in general.

Daigo Umehara is the best fighting-game player of all-time, but he didn't always play to win. He would win so much at the arcade, that eventually he didn't try as hard, so that the arcade became a more inclusive and welcoming environment to other people. He is a true champion. He also played not just to win, but to improve, and learn the game more fully. Infiltration said something that I will paraphrase, in that the shortcut to winning is using one character exclusively, but eventually, you start to lose because you do not have a comprehensive knowledge about the game you're playing.
 
There are many talented players in the NBA that have never won a championship. Does that fact make them "losers"? No. I feel bad for Anthony Davis, who was recently quoted as echoing the general sentiment that winning is the most important thing. In my opinion, he is the best "big-man" in the NBA. He is shooting over 53%, 35% from three, and 81% from the field. He's also giving you 27 points, 10 rebounds, and 2 blocks. Aside from the numbers, he is the best two-way player in the league. However, he has only made the playoffs once in 2015, and was swept by the eventual-champion Golden State Warriors. He is a great player, and on a trajectory for the Hall of Fame. Let us not give him any less respect just because his teams haven't won playoff-games and championships.

Winning is not everything. Let us remember that we are human before we are achievement-achieving robots.

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