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As you are no doubt aware, if you're evaluating if a thing is good or bad you have to consider its net effect, not a couple isolated examples. This is just a "s
by ajkjk 3y ago
As you are no doubt aware, if you're evaluating if a thing is good or bad you have to consider its net effect, not a couple isolated examples. This is just a "smoking feels good and well I didn't get lung cancer" argument.
- hammock 3y agoMy uncle plays at the Mirage, so excess profits benefit a forgotten community (the Seminole tribe) that was historically and brutally marginalized by the privileged ‘society’ whose net effect you are considering. The lottery proceeds fund public schools.
- WarOnPrivacy 3y ago> The lottery proceeds fund public schools. Because a corresponding amount of general budget funds were diverted away from schools, the inference is untrue.
- hammock 3y agoDarn can’t get anything right. Just tell me who to vote for so I can get back to my shows
- ajkjk 3y agoAs with all things: if you ignore all the downsides, yes, the upsides look good.
- plagiarist 3y agoThe uncle that won $10,000? So that little tidbit wasn't good after all, he was stealing money from a historically marginalized community. And the lotto winner was similarly taking money from public schools.