• @[email protected]
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    246 months ago

    Gambling ruines lifes. Just because people can get their win does not mean it should be defended in any case. These casinos intentionally make people addicted, causing so much suffering and death.

    • thermal_shock
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      6 months ago

      you can defend casinos as long as you treat it as entertainment and don’t bet your entire life savings on it and cry about it

      I set my initial bet amount, once that’s gone my game is done. on the other side if I double it my game is done

      • @[email protected]
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        16 months ago

        No you cant defend them. If you dont get addicted easily, good for you. They prey on those that do

    • @radicalautonomy
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      6 months ago

      These casinos intentionally make people addicted, causing so much suffering and death.

      Noted, but so does alcohol and you can find it almost everywhere. Most people have the capacity to exercise caution when engaging in potentially addictive behaviors. Unless we intend to ban everything that could cause addiction and lead to destruction of a person’s life (gambling, alcohol, tobacco, food, sex, claw machines, loot boxes…), then we have to let people make their own choices and be responsible for their own decisions. When it becomes apparent to a person that they have an addiction, it is their own responsibility to tend to it.

      • @Jtotheb
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        16 months ago

        Sure was nice of the state to require your 2001 online casino to list in writing the odds of winning and enforce payment. But sure, they did you a favor and the state is bad, people are solo acts and you should be free to prey on the less powerful

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            Sorry, I’ll extrapolate more precisely.

            Casinos spend unfathomable resources on learning exactly how to wedge their ads deep into your mind and get you hooked on their satisfying little dopamine loops, but it’s your personal failure if you, an ordinary person who is statistically speaking living paycheck to paycheck raising a kid with no savings, succumb to them. And your responsibility to fix it.

            Correct?