On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:13:35 -0400, WangoTango
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On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:01:07 -0400, WangoTango
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On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:27:21 -0400, WangoTango
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We outlaw dangerous drugs and dangerous products. Do you object to
that too?

What is at question here is why you think you know better what a person
does with THEIR money, nothing more.

You didn't answer the question.
Because you are just trying to stray from your initial flawed premise.
If you want to have a discussion about drug use, we can, AFTER we get
past the current discussion.


Like I stated before, if you are going to trumpet the successes of the
"War on Drugs" you are going to have your job cut out for you.

Education and treatment has always been more productive than
prohibition.

Do you believe that? I don't.

Well, yes, you didn't say you wanted to educated people about the
stupidity of gambling, you said it should be outlawed. You didn't say
that there should be treatment for compulsive gamblers, you said you
wanted to outlaw it.

Prevention is the best treatment.
You contradict your own statements.
I hope you are better at electronics than at maintaining a coherent
argument.


So, you wanted to have a PROHIBITION on gambling.

I think society would be better off that way, yes. It doesn't affect
me on way or another, except that the gamblers contribute government
revenue that I don't have to.
What you think may or may not be in line with a particular individual.
Why should your opinion have any bearing on what another person does
with their money?

Because we have a representative government? Because I have opinions
about businesses exploiting individuals?

And, I repeat, I dislike gambling as a *commercial enterprise*. Let
them gamble amongst friends, or even at a bar as long as there's no
house cut.



You wanted to control what a person does with their money, as if you
knew better.

No, I want to outlaw professional gambling establishments and state
lotteries. That's quite different.
So, you want to decide for another what is best for them, sure sounds
like control to me.

If it were your decision, would you allow drug and gun dealers to set
up shop in school cafeterias? Would you, under any circumstances,
restrict people's free choice to buy and sell anything? Radioisotopes
at Safeway? Explosives sold roadside, out of pickup trucks? Unlicensed
cut-rate (pun!) surgery?

John