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With the freedom to choose you are allowed to make bad choices. Try to remember this in the future if you ever think, "Why is this thing illegal? That's silly.

With the freedom to choose you are allowed to make bad choices. Try to remember this in the future if you ever think, "Why is this thing illegal? That's silly. People should be free to make their own choices!" Because this kind of reasoning is exactly how that other thing and all its derivatives got banned. Eg drugs and the war on drugs. Also, those analogies are not half-baked. They're spot on.

Spivak 3y ago
The war on drugs has very little to do with drugs so this is a bad analogy. So long as you are white and don't look poor you can do whatever drugs you want and the law won't get in your way. I have literally done a bump of K with an on duty cop at a music festival. The push for legalization isn't about people making their own choices, it's because it's not possible for the government to have this power and not abuse it and harm reduction via regulated production (taking away choices, clearly) and medical supervision. This argument doesn't apply to video game gambling. Nobody is getting their hit of digital lootboxes from their dealer and the government isn't arresting players for Fortnite possession. You can have all the thrill of random drops without it being tied to your credit card, there are still recovering WoW addicts. If people en masse suddenly started spending ruinous amounts of money on Yu-Gi-Oh that's a pretty strong case against them. Regulation follows the harm not the principles.
- Aerroon 3y ago
  >So long as you are white and don't look poor you can do whatever drugs you want and the law won't get in your way. I have literally done a bump of K with an on duty cop at a music festival. I hope you know that US drug policy has basically been pushed onto the entirety of the rest of the world. Eg the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs in 1961. This means that when you talk about drug policy it's not about US racial politics, it's about the entire world. So when you say "as long as you're white" it's meaningless. >This argument doesn't apply to video game gambling. Nobody is getting their hit of digital lootboxes from their dealer and the government isn't arresting players for Fortnite possession. You can have all the thrill of random drops without it being tied to your credit card, there are still recovering WoW addicts. And you can have all of this without the government intervening either. That's the whole point - government intervention is what screwed all of it up. It's not intentional, but it's just a side effect that seems to always pop up whenever the government throws around bans that are intended to impact regular people.

Spivak 3y ago

The war on drugs has very little to do with drugs so this is a bad analogy. So long as you are white and don't look poor you can do whatever drugs you want and the law won't get in your way. I have literally done a bump of K with an on duty cop at a music festival. The push for legalization isn't about people making their own choices, it's because it's not possible for the government to have this power and not abuse it and harm reduction via regulated production (taking away choices, clearly) and medical supervision. This argument doesn't apply to video game gambling. Nobody is getting their hit of digital lootboxes from their dealer and the government isn't arresting players for Fortnite possession. You can have all the thrill of random drops without it being tied to your credit card, there are still recovering WoW addicts. If people en masse suddenly started spending ruinous amounts of money on Yu-Gi-Oh that's a pretty strong case against them. Regulation follows the harm not the principles.

Aerroon 3y ago
>So long as you are white and don't look poor you can do whatever drugs you want and the law won't get in your way. I have literally done a bump of K with an on duty cop at a music festival. I hope you know that US drug policy has basically been pushed onto the entirety of the rest of the world. Eg the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs in 1961. This means that when you talk about drug policy it's not about US racial politics, it's about the entire world. So when you say "as long as you're white" it's meaningless. >This argument doesn't apply to video game gambling. Nobody is getting their hit of digital lootboxes from their dealer and the government isn't arresting players for Fortnite possession. You can have all the thrill of random drops without it being tied to your credit card, there are still recovering WoW addicts. And you can have all of this without the government intervening either. That's the whole point - government intervention is what screwed all of it up. It's not intentional, but it's just a side effect that seems to always pop up whenever the government throws around bans that are intended to impact regular people.