Regulation

In situations where play is regarded as a simulation or test-area for real life preparation, play could become problematic in times when the socially correct destination is not reached. If the simulation is carried out and the WRONG conclusion is reached, this would drastically affect the way these people act in the real world. If it isn't reprimanded in play, will some problematic actions be carried out into real life situations? Or is play not the space for this repremanding? I Play constitutes an isolated space, removed from from real world consequences, until it isn't- until there is some analagy imposed by an outsider, an authoritative figure, who creates? points out? the connections between the play and the real. Where's the transition between children acting outside of social constrictions and existing in a way incongrious with the scoially accepted ways of acting and reacting? It could be said that play can exist in this delusional space until it isn't play any more.What happens when children don't come to the conclusion that hurting each other is bad at recess, and so they never develop that idea? Is mature regulation necessary, or are these conclusions children can come to through innate compassion and empathy? It is hard to tell, since all sorts of play that I can recall in my own experience have been regulated in some way.