- 2% of global population suffers from gambling disorder
- Approximately 25% of online gamblers are classified as problem gamblers based on clinical screening tools
> You not getting mugged has nothing to do with what I'm saying,that's false equivalency.
Why, exactly?
> I have every right to enter a life of addiction and ruin myself, as do you.
Yeah here is the thing. You don't know if I have a mental health disorder. Assuming that I do, gambling companies will use any trick they can to hook me into giving them all my money.
> A right to prevent me from doing something that doesn't affect you
I agree the government doesn't need to "prevent you from anything". What I'm saying is that I want them to prevent gambling companies from doing things to me - a hypothetical gambling addict.
I, as a potential person with compulsive behavior, will have gambling companies showing me ads on the street. Tagging me up and showing me adds in Youtube or any other website that uses ads. Offering customized "free samples" to entice me. I don't want them doing that to me and I can't make them not do that to me - only the government can.
So going back to my first question, which you didn't answer - what do you think the government should get involved with?
I think you misunderstood what I was saying. I don't have problems restricting and regulating gambling companies and their practices. I do have a problem with the government preventing or banning gambling companies which is effectively preventing individuals from gambling in groups. The government should absolutely do something about malicious and hostile business practices, but not on just gambling but every other business as well. If you have food addiction, how should mcdonalds filter you out? Plenty of diabetics and heart-attack risks out there thanks to that, and I hope you don't think that's less of a problem. Don't pick and choose vices.
If we agree on that last point and you agree that gambling companies should exist and sane people who are well informed have the right to gamble at those places, then we agree on all important points.
Glad that we see some common ground. I think we agree on the essentials.
> If you have food addiction, how should mcdonalds filter you out?
Debatable. Let's go back to this statistic:
- Approximately 25% of online gamblers are classified as problem gamblers based on clinical screening tools
That is not insignificant. I don't know how it is at McDonalds, but I doubt 25% of their customers are food addicts. What is a tolerable range? We do have rules and restrictions for alcoholic drinks and tobacco.
Ok. Glad that we have some common ground there, then. If not by regulating gambling companies, how do you propose these people should be protected?
I think having some data would help. Here's my first hit from a google the first hit I got:
https://worldmetrics.org/online-gambling-addiction-statistic...
From there, I highlight 2:
- 2% of global population suffers from gambling disorder
- Approximately 25% of online gamblers are classified as problem gamblers based on clinical screening tools
> You not getting mugged has nothing to do with what I'm saying,that's false equivalency.
Why, exactly?
> I have every right to enter a life of addiction and ruin myself, as do you.
Yeah here is the thing. You don't know if I have a mental health disorder. Assuming that I do, gambling companies will use any trick they can to hook me into giving them all my money.
> A right to prevent me from doing something that doesn't affect you
I agree the government doesn't need to "prevent you from anything". What I'm saying is that I want them to prevent gambling companies from doing things to me - a hypothetical gambling addict.
I, as a potential person with compulsive behavior, will have gambling companies showing me ads on the street. Tagging me up and showing me adds in Youtube or any other website that uses ads. Offering customized "free samples" to entice me. I don't want them doing that to me and I can't make them not do that to me - only the government can.
So going back to my first question, which you didn't answer - what do you think the government should get involved with?