KrauerkingGamblers trying to win a bet on Polymarket are vowing to kill me if I don’t rewrite an Iran missile story
Gambling needs to simply be made illegal
I don’t care what your arguments are gambling needs to be made illegal
I think it’s fair for it to be legal, but only in specific locations and contexts. I think small scale gambling between friends and coworkers is fine. I think well regulated casinos are bad but serve as a deterrent to underground criminal gambling. I think having legal gambling through the internet and on your phone, advertised everywhere is a serious problem.
Prohibition of vices doesn’t work, it just pushes it into organized crime. I want harm reduction more than purity
Im cool with the state owning things. Its the oversize marketing budgets and no concern for harm that comes with private ownership that bugs me.
It pushes them into organized crime because the state fails to provide for people’s needs not because the vice is prohibited
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And then there are those of us for whom gambling is not a need. And I think it’s problematic to regard any unnecessary activity, especially one that’s a known focus for self-destructively compulsive behavior, as a need.
Heroin’s a pressing need too, when you’re addicted.
You’re interested in solutions. The person you’re replying to is only interested in hearing his own voice.
Yeah I never assume I can convince someone I’m arguing with on the internet. My goal is to convince the readers. Or entertain myself while bored at work
I agree completely. I always assume there are younger folks in the room who haven’t formed an opinion on everything yet.
It’s not just that, even us old and opinionated people can be swayed when we aren’t in the fight, given we have the wisdom to let ourselves listen to arguments. Especially if we keep seeing similar ideas from those we see as peers. It’s just that when we feel confronted most people (myself included) dig in rather than reevaluate.
It’s the young and the ignorant who have formed opinions on subjects they don’t understand.
At least a few people learn nuance as they age and gain life experience. It’s far from inevitable, but it does happen.
WesDym@phutatorius By crazy coincidence, I've lived close to Ivy League schools most of my life, meaning I grew up around them. When I was a little past college age myself, I regularly went to an eatery that mainly served those kids. The owner had put up a sign:
"Hey, Kids! Move Out of Your Parents' Home Now, While You Still Know Everything!"
It is exactly true. The often simplistic and unbending certainty of youth is the folly of sincere but naïve ignorance, and lack of experience.
They’re not saying ban gambling, they’re saying ban gambling specifically on people dying.