• Protoknuckles
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    3 months ago

    At any time someone can just stop gambling. But over hundreds of years, we have seen it is an addictive behavior. Social media has been meticulously designed to be the same.

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      3 months ago

      Gambling physically takes your means to eat, have shelter and support yourself away from you, permanently, stop comparing that to a sensation that does nothing of the sort.

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        3 months ago

        Social media, gaming and porn addiction could do all of that by robbing you of time and desire to do anything else, the same way gambling does.

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          3 months ago

          No, gambling is specifically defined as a predatory mechanism of addiction aimed at separating people from their material means to survive. You cannot directly compare it with porn and social media as if they are of the same exact type, they are not. They fundamentally are of two different categories.

          You are making a poor comparison and your inability to recognize that makes you look more and more ridiculous.

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            3 months ago

            Fundamentally, I disagree. Both are addictive behaviors exploited by the rich and powerful.

            And I’m sure I’ve looked way more ridiculous for way worse stuff. The fact that you keep trying to attack my character says more about you than it does about me.