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I live in the USA, which has very relaxed alcohol laws. I can walk into most pubs/bars in my city and find people getting extremely drunk for example, as well a

I live in the USA, which has very relaxed alcohol laws. I can walk into most pubs/bars in my city and find people getting extremely drunk for example, as well as a retail liquor facilities. There are huge social consequences to drinking. If you look at an entire society you have some people that will have problems with it and some people that won't. You may fall into the "won't" pile but surely society benefits if we prevent a large number of our members from falling prey to addiction.

jamespo 8y ago
Not sure if pro or anti
Phlarp 8y ago
Excellent. Do gun laws next!
gamblor956 8y ago
We have anti-drunkenness laws in the US to deal with people who drink to much. AFAIK, no such laws exist with respect to gambling.
- nikisweeting 8y ago
  That's not entirely true, most international gaming businesses follow strict anti-gambling-addiction regulations like using self exclusion databases, implementing daily limits, and doing pre-emptive problem gambling detection. Allowing problem gamblers to blow all their money hurts the whole industry because then they go broke and don't have any more money to gamble with. The industry has started to recognize that in the last 5-10 years and many measures have started to be implemented to catch problem gamblers and restrict them before they lose all their money.
- Broken_Hippo 8y ago
  Um... not really. Anyone that wants to get drunk and stay drunk buys a large thing of vodka for a cheap price and goes home. Buy 2 on saturday if your state doesn't sell on Sunday. If you restrict it much more than that there is an easy black market. Most of the laws don't really deal with people that drink too much. Bars might need to stop serving if someone is inebriated enough. There might be public intox laws, which occasionally get folks arrested for walking home instead of driving. Drunk driving laws, because it is bad And sometimes there are limits to hours and things. None of these things deter anyone determined and I'm guessing more than one of them catch more folks that don't have a big problem than the ones that do.

jamespo 8y ago

Not sure if pro or anti

Phlarp 8y ago

Excellent. Do gun laws next!

gamblor956 8y ago

We have anti-drunkenness laws in the US to deal with people who drink to much. AFAIK, no such laws exist with respect to gambling.

nikisweeting 8y ago
That's not entirely true, most international gaming businesses follow strict anti-gambling-addiction regulations like using self exclusion databases, implementing daily limits, and doing pre-emptive problem gambling detection. Allowing problem gamblers to blow all their money hurts the whole industry because then they go broke and don't have any more money to gamble with. The industry has started to recognize that in the last 5-10 years and many measures have started to be implemented to catch problem gamblers and restrict them before they lose all their money.
Broken_Hippo 8y ago
Um... not really. Anyone that wants to get drunk and stay drunk buys a large thing of vodka for a cheap price and goes home. Buy 2 on saturday if your state doesn't sell on Sunday. If you restrict it much more than that there is an easy black market. Most of the laws don't really deal with people that drink too much. Bars might need to stop serving if someone is inebriated enough. There might be public intox laws, which occasionally get folks arrested for walking home instead of driving. Drunk driving laws, because it is bad And sometimes there are limits to hours and things. None of these things deter anyone determined and I'm guessing more than one of them catch more folks that don't have a big problem than the ones that do.