• Mulligrubs@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    The only thing worse than legal gambling is illegal gambling.

    Addicts are addicts, they can’t be helped and must help themselves. We all must learn to control our dopamine receptors, they are batshit crazy.

    • TORFdot0@lemmy.world
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      4 hours ago

      I don’t even know if that’s true in the same way that it is for a drug user. Making drugs legal and safe is a good for society. Making gambling legal has made society worse in terms of bankruptcies and financial stress.

      Gambling addicts definitely need support but allowing problem gamblers to be taken advantage of is something that legal gambling does that legal recreational drug use does not