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>Speeding on the highway and jaywalking may seem harmless

These two are not at all the same, and one is much more dangerous and asocial than the other.

>>tokai+(OP)
They're also a terrible comparison to gambling because the participant can massively reduce the risk compared to the baseline by having the "skill" to not take the risk when the odds are particularly bad, like not jaywalking through traffic that's blinded by sun whereas with pretty much every form of gambling you can only change the risk very slightly if at all.

>>tokai+(OP)
Those two examples were meant to bring the idea that many things in life, though different, can be risky.

>>potato+I4
"skill" is why gambling institutions are making record profits. Sports betting, for example, has way too many variables to ever make winning consistent.

Jaywalking when being blinded by the sun is about as silly as you bringing it up to prove some point. Only a fool would do that, like someone who thinks they can beat a possibly rigged gambling system.