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I'll probably get down voted for this but nonetheless it needs to be said, partly tongue in cheek; ha ha, only serious. Gambling is not a sin / Provided that
by tankenmate 9y ago
I'll probably get down voted for this but nonetheless it needs to be said, partly tongue in cheek; ha ha, only serious.
Gambling is not a sin /
Provided that you always win.
-- Roald Dahl
- tankenmate 9y agoFor those who abhor levity and reading between the lines the lesson is this; Risk is a spectrum; p < 1 is gambling for small n. So where does sure thing become risky become gambling become plain stupid? And one thing society as a whole will agree on is that p = 1 is not morally wrong. Therefore, "Gambling is not a sin / Provided that you always win" is true regardless of your sense of humour. The grey areas are less well defined, just like people's sense of humour.