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by maxerickson 2835 days ago
Sure, I'm entirely comfortable making life difficult for bookies.
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And why is that? The rest of society has deemed it a ligitimate business. So you simply don't like gambling and that's why you want them to eat it? Not a very strong argument.
It's more that I think the activity of promoting gambling is one of getting your customers to eat it (It's advertised as a game of stakes, it's really just skimming transaction fees), so I don't mind it if what goes around comes around once in a while.
Society did no such thing; they weaseled their way into a legal grey zone and made themselves big before society had much say in it.