Gamblers trying to win a bet on Polymarket are vowing to kill me if I don’t rewrite an Iran missile story

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Gamblers trying to win a bet on Polymarket are vowing to kill me if I don’t rewrite an Iran missile story - lemy.lol

Lemmy

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.

Nah this needs to be illegal period. Not taking questions

Find something else to do

Prohibition of vices doesn’t work, it just pushes it into organized crime. I want harm reduction more than purity

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.

Gambling isn’t a need not sure how you came to conclude otherwise