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I am thinking based on reading your words that you are upstanding citizen who was raised well and never fell into an addiction trap. but trust me, for people w

• ndriscoll 2y ago
  The point is that vastly fewer people will become addicts in the first place if you don't literally advertise it during games and let them download an app and get going in a couple seconds. Stopping 100% of addicts isn't the goal. The goal is to discourage it, or at least not encourage it. We don't need cartoons pushing cigarettes on kids, and rightly banned that. We don't need Disney and schools pushing gambling on young adults. The current situation is that some public schools are literally pushing gambling on students. It's a complete betrayal toward the younger generation by the older ones (yes, state lotteries are also bad).
  • bdangubic 2y ago
    I dont disagree at all - I think gambling should be outright illegal. there are hordes of “fans” of all sports in america that watch the sport only in the interest of gambling and nothing else. the last superbowl I was at a party and was asked in disbelief many times how come I don’t have any “action” on the game so much so that it made me feel like I am somehow “weird” … just take football for example, games are 3+ minutes long, there is on average 11-ish minutes of actual gameplay, the commentators are paid more than maybe handful of players on the field… no wonder one needs gambling to keep money machine churning