[SpaceBar]

Gambling is an addictive vice, undermines the value of hard work, is not a conservative value, and has been normalized in American culture through clever advertising and by making government a partner in what has traditionally/historically been considered criminal activity.

[thesligoduffyflynns]

oh yeah your right

and so is step ball

😆

[4Runner]

It is a self-imposed addictive tax millions contribute to which funds an entitlement or welfare benefit for one individual only. It is a contradiction for voters to be opposed to the welfare state, yet to go out and buy lottery tickets the proceeds from which ultimately accrue to and enrich only one individual.

[Rockingham]

Gambling was legal, common, and normal on the American frontier and in most other places and times. Although gambling can be addictive and a vice, for most people, it tends to teach (sometimes painfully and expensively) the value of restraint, caution, and hedging one's bets.

These are useful lessons because life itself is a succession of gambles and choices poorly understood. That is why probability -- which was first developed by gamblers -- is so useful a field of mathematics.

[Baldwin77]

I can stop, anytime.

[lowbridge]

So, how many tickets did you buy? ;-)