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[return to "Legalizing sports gambling was a mistake"]
1. snapca+0M2[view] [source] 2024-09-27 13:20:58
>>jimbob+(OP)
The older I get the more I hate gambling. When i was younger I tended to think "hey it's their choice" but i've realized how unfair our society is in terms of things like this.

Food, gambling, etc. are all backed by hordes of brilliant well paid people trying to get you to ruin your life so they make money. On the other side is just regular people like us stressed out trying to survive.

This isn't some "freedom" issue, it's an incredibly huge power asymmetry and I think "we the people" need protection from these forces

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2. pjlega+vc3[view] [source] 2024-09-27 15:33:14
>>snapca+0M2
How shall we as a society decide who is to be denied agency in this way, because someone else determines they are to be infantilized, deemed incapable of exercising full responsibility for their own -- entirely voluntary -- actions?

Can you propose a universally acceptable formula or philosophy? Shall we just consult you on a case by case basis to determine when and where a putative power differential exists, and exactly when such a differnetial becomes large enough to verge into "unfair"?

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3. diggin+lg3[view] [source] 2024-09-27 15:48:35
>>pjlega+vc3
You know that laws already exist right?
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4. pjlega+zh3[view] [source] 2024-09-27 15:53:53
>>diggin+lg3
Of course, and our laws have apparently determined that "gambling is OK."

Why ought we revisit and overturn that process in this case? Is there any objective criterion beyond "it seems bad to me, I don't like the result of our lawmaking process?"

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5. diggin+sj3[view] [source] 2024-09-27 16:02:04
>>pjlega+zh3
My point was that drawing arbitrary lines for what's legal isn't the new invention you acted like it was.

This most recent comment has shifted the topic entirely, and I'm not going to address it because it's obviously either written in bad faith or just painfully unthoughtful.

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6. pjlega+Ok3[view] [source] 2024-09-27 16:07:57
>>diggin+sj3
The lines for what is legal are not at all drawn arbitrarily in a constitutional legal system such as the United States.
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