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You can, you should teach your kid about the dangers of drugs and addiction. Still you wouldn't bring him in a crack house...

unmole 4y ago
> Still you wouldn't bring him in a crack house For reasons of physical safety, surely? A trip to a crack house will probably end any notions of drugs being cool.
- patja 4y ago
  If you don't have any crack houses handy, Requiem for a Dream is also pretty effective.
- chii 4y ago
  > For reasons of physical safety, surely? but then bringing them to a casino or a place of gambling (physically, or allowing to play gambling games) would also have mental safety issues right?
  - User23 4y ago
    In the USA at least minors aren’t allowed in casinos and in my experience the staff are quite zealous when it comes to enforcement.
fatnoah 4y ago
> You can, you should teach your kid about the dangers of drugs and addiction. Still you wouldn't bring him in a crack house... I know this is a little tongue-in-cheek, but I have a 15 year-old and we lived downtown in a major city until 5th grade. Mom and Dad definitely talked about the dangers of drugs, but I don't think any of those talks made anywhere near the impression of coming across someone passed out in the entrance to a subway station with a needle stuck in there arm. Our trip was delayed while I made sure the person was still breathing and then summoned medical help.
User23 4y ago
Learning gambling at least has some real educational merit. Risk management, understanding probabilities, statistics, and how to quickly estimate under pressure are all generally useful skills. I recall hearing that the science of probability was basically discovered by one of the Bernoullis who had a gambling patron. I suppose someone with enough gumption could learn useful skills like sales, marketing, loss prevention, and customer retention from drug dealers too, but that’s a whole level of seedy past legal gambling.
- lupire 4y ago
  A casino is needed for none of that. Quick or slow estimation always shows that betting at a casino is a bad bet, unless you are an extremely gifted "hacker".

unmole 4y ago

> Still you wouldn't bring him in a crack house For reasons of physical safety, surely? A trip to a crack house will probably end any notions of drugs being cool.

patja 4y ago
If you don't have any crack houses handy, Requiem for a Dream is also pretty effective.
chii 4y ago
> For reasons of physical safety, surely? but then bringing them to a casino or a place of gambling (physically, or allowing to play gambling games) would also have mental safety issues right?
- User23 4y ago
  In the USA at least minors aren’t allowed in casinos and in my experience the staff are quite zealous when it comes to enforcement.

fatnoah 4y ago

> You can, you should teach your kid about the dangers of drugs and addiction. Still you wouldn't bring him in a crack house... I know this is a little tongue-in-cheek, but I have a 15 year-old and we lived downtown in a major city until 5th grade. Mom and Dad definitely talked about the dangers of drugs, but I don't think any of those talks made anywhere near the impression of coming across someone passed out in the entrance to a subway station with a needle stuck in there arm. Our trip was delayed while I made sure the person was still breathing and then summoned medical help.

User23 4y ago

Learning gambling at least has some real educational merit. Risk management, understanding probabilities, statistics, and how to quickly estimate under pressure are all generally useful skills. I recall hearing that the science of probability was basically discovered by one of the Bernoullis who had a gambling patron. I suppose someone with enough gumption could learn useful skills like sales, marketing, loss prevention, and customer retention from drug dealers too, but that’s a whole level of seedy past legal gambling.

lupire 4y ago
A casino is needed for none of that. Quick or slow estimation always shows that betting at a casino is a bad bet, unless you are an extremely gifted "hacker".