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Same reason as weed: if you legalize it you can tax it. Also, I really don't see the problem with gambling. It's a game. People can do what they want with thei

by dudul 4y ago

Same reason as weed: if you legalize it you can tax it. Also, I really don't see the problem with gambling. It's a game. People can do what they want with their time and money.

bdangubic 4y ago
> People can do what they want with their time and money. This is precisely what people cannot do unless law of their country/state/etc... explicitly allows them to do. Gambling is illegal in many US states (though number is decreasing as more and more politicians are being bought by lobbyist). The problem is of course that gambling is in large number of cases an addiction that ruins families, causes suicides etc... and we tend to write laws to prevent this type of thing, otherwise cocaine and heroin and opioids and mdma and ... would also be legal :)
- dudul 4y ago
  Do you have data for this "large number of cases"? Large how? Large compared to what? You're being surprisingly thick. My comment of course applied to things that were legal. If gambling is legal what's the moral high ground to judge people who gamble exactly? Online gambling has a lot of guardrails to help people not go too far. Doesn't always work but I would like to see some numbers fueling your outrage.
  - bdangubic 4y ago
    lmgtfy (there are two million gambling addicts in the US alone and this number is like 3-4x that): https://onlinedegrees.unr.edu/blog/gambling-addiction-resources/#:~:text=According%20to%20the%20National%20Council,have%20mild%20or%20moderate%20problems https://onlinedegrees.unr.edu/blog/gambling-addiction-resour.... and also I am not sure where you are getting that I am "outraged" :) there are many things that are legal that probably shouldn't be and are only legal because right people put money into the right hands to make them legal. the question posed in this thread was whether there is something that can be done to reverse that

by dudul 4y ago

Same reason as weed: if you legalize it you can tax it. Also, I really don't see the problem with gambling. It's a game. People can do what they want with their time and money.

bdangubic 4y ago

> People can do what they want with their time and money. This is precisely what people cannot do unless law of their country/state/etc... explicitly allows them to do. Gambling is illegal in many US states (though number is decreasing as more and more politicians are being bought by lobbyist). The problem is of course that gambling is in large number of cases an addiction that ruins families, causes suicides etc... and we tend to write laws to prevent this type of thing, otherwise cocaine and heroin and opioids and mdma and ... would also be legal :)

dudul 4y ago
Do you have data for this "large number of cases"? Large how? Large compared to what? You're being surprisingly thick. My comment of course applied to things that were legal. If gambling is legal what's the moral high ground to judge people who gamble exactly? Online gambling has a lot of guardrails to help people not go too far. Doesn't always work but I would like to see some numbers fueling your outrage.
- bdangubic 4y ago
  lmgtfy (there are two million gambling addicts in the US alone and this number is like 3-4x that): https://onlinedegrees.unr.edu/blog/gambling-addiction-resources/#:~:text=According%20to%20the%20National%20Council,have%20mild%20or%20moderate%20problems https://onlinedegrees.unr.edu/blog/gambling-addiction-resour.... and also I am not sure where you are getting that I am "outraged" :) there are many things that are legal that probably shouldn't be and are only legal because right people put money into the right hands to make them legal. the question posed in this thread was whether there is something that can be done to reverse that