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My main disagreement with the article is the attempt to plant the religious conservative flag on objecting to casinos and gambling. Many american progressives,

by mateo1 5y ago

My main disagreement with the article is the attempt to plant the religious conservative flag on objecting to casinos and gambling. Many american progressives, the european left and center parties, even the chinese communists almost unanimously object on these practices. In fact I'd say that anyone with a rudimentary sense of morality would not think of casinos as a net positive.

xxpor 5y ago
It's authoritarian vs libertarian (the vertical axis on the classic political compass) rather than left vs right.
- mateo1 5y ago
  To me it seems like the author makes an argument for social conservatism and not for authoritarianism. After all many social conservatives are extreme liberals when it comes to economics.
  - xxpor 5y ago
    But are extreme authoritarians when it comes to personal behavior.
needlefish 5y ago
It just doesn't seem like a great article to me. This is just a type of social issue with no solution, only trade offs and no way to view the counterfactual so we can basically argue whatever we want. If you want to prove one side of the argument just make an analogy with alcohol. If you want to prove the other side of the argument then just swap cocaine for alcohol.