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by c22 1272 days ago
I don't get it, everyone can be born. Are you saying that it's the possibility of iteration that makes it fair? So if the raffle enforced one ticket per person it is no longer fair?
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No, everyone is born, there is no choice about it. I can choose to partake in a raffle.

A forced raffle where everyone has to join is unfair, yes. That's why we have laws, and there is (ideally) no randomness.