We used to have freedom and self-control.

TheOtherHobbes 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The gambling industry has never shown evidence of self-control.

	▲	throwaway_95283 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		They seem to be pretty diligent about it, I mean once I hit on 17 and won on 22, but generally they are pretty vigilant about it.

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kingstnap 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You can still gamble.

When it comes to hard drugs I can understand why there are reasonable arguments for legalization of personal use.

Idk how many reasonable arguments extend the overton window to thinking that meth should be advertised seemingly all over the place. Because gambling ads are actually everywhere.

	▲	dualvariable an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I'm actually consistent in the other direction. I find intrusive advertising toxic and want it all reduced or banned. Not just tobacco and gambling ads, but everything else as well. (No, I don't care that it is like advocating for democracy in 10th-century England and would entirely blow up how our economy currently "works")

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AlexandrB 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Modern sports gambling ads amount to fraud because winners are prevented from winning more through wager restrictions. The whole industry can only exist because it cheats and lies.

	▲	jtbigwoo 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The most damning thing about the online gambling sites/apps is that they don't care about how much you bet, only how much you lose. They aggressively limit and ban their biggest customers if those customers win.
	▲	throwaway_95283 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Use polymarket, they don't care.

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sandworm101 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

No. They are called "vices" because you get stuck in them. Ten thousand studies on mice tell us that addiction isn't learned morality but innate biology.

We also pass laws regulating murder/arson/theft even though those too can be avoided through self control.

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worik 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The studies that showed rats would suck on a morphine feed until they got very sick had a floor which was demonstrated in the 1970s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Park

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throwaway_95283 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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Cpoll 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

We used to be able to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps. Being influencable by advertising is a moral failing. </s>