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There's a lot baked into that thought, but I wanted to extract this part: > There’s nothing morally wrong with ... building... gambling. Say you're building a
by Tao3300 2y ago
There's a lot baked into that thought, but I wanted to extract this part:
> There’s nothing morally wrong with ... building... gambling.
Say you're building a gambling system and building that system well. What does that mean? More people use it? Those people access it more? Access it faster? Gamble more? Gamble faster?
It creates and feeds addiction.
- slumberlust 2y agoI agree with you. It's also worth noting that this isn't unique to anything discussed here. EVERYONE has their line in the sand on a huge array of issues, and that line falls differently for a lot of people. Environment, religion, war, medicine; everything has a personal line associated with it.
- sneak 2y agoLots of things create and feed addictions, including baking cookies. Let’s not confuse the issue. Just because you find something distasteful doesn’t mean it’s bad or morally problematic.
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- Tao3300 2y agoI've never seen a homeless person in Atlantic City put his fist through an oven window because the cookies didn't come out right.
- sneak 2y agoI’ve seen plenty of simple-carb-addicted people die of fatness. It’s a slow and painful death. We let adults make their own choices.
- Tao3300 2y ago1) I question how much choice an addict has. 2) If you were devising more efficient sugar delivery systems for those acquaintances as a means to take every last cent they had, knowing they'd be unable to resist, you're complicit in robbing and killing them.