How is the moral side any different compared to selling/buying a used car though? The manifacturer of the car doesn't get anything out of it, the person who bought the car doesn't buy a new car from that company (or another) and I might buy a new car from the same manifacturer, or from another, or buy something completely different. If I sell it through an used car dealer, the car dealer will make money out of it too.
And in that context video games ARE physical goods. You don't own the IP, the distribution rights and further associated rights. You are selling your legally acquired authorized copy of the game - you can neither legally sell stolen goods, not unauthorized copies of IP. Yes, properly preserved a game/music cd/movie dvd is a lot more durable than a lot of other physical goods - but that has no bearing on the right to resell them.
In the end though, the gaming industry will get it their way - we already have impossible to resell DRMed stuff on consoles and it isn't likely to stop at that stage. Then we'll know whether people would be willing to spend way more on games with no ability to resell, or whether there will be a handful of big games deemed worth keeping and worth the price out of the hundreds the industry gushes out.
And I do consider selling your game for change to some crummy 2nd hand dealer, who then resells it at almost full price to the next sucker a situation benefitial only to the dealer - there are better ways to sell and buy games. And not a bad thing if those $10 DLC discourage that situation, but then it also depends on how "bonus" this content is - or welcome to having a major part of the game/an unlock code for it as a DLC.
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