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Re:Lottery-Like Prizes Coax Savings. What’s the Risk in Expa... by nyc_pizzadev on Friday December 21, 2018 @07:54PM (#18738127)
"...something that truly benefits ticket-buyers: by nudging people to save more or, even, to engage in safer sex."

Whoa. I guess poor people should not be allowed to participate in the joys of family and child raising. How did this get by editorial?

Edit: at the end of the article, the author links sex to health. I apologize, I didn't make it that far. Would have been better to say heath education in the earlier statement...

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Re:Lottery-Like Prizes Coax Savings. What’s the Risk in Expa... by hirsin on Friday December 21, 2018 @08:08PM (#18738186)
Because that's not what it's saying? Safer sex means not getting HIV in this context. Similarly, not having unintended children would also be a benefit that does not say anything about forbidding people from raising children if they so choose.
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Re:Lottery-Like Prizes Coax Savings. What’s the Risk in Expa... by nyc_pizzadev on Friday December 21, 2018 @08:20PM (#18738247)
Ya, sorry, I jumped to that conclusion based on an early statement.
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Re:Lottery-Like Prizes Coax Savings. What’s the Risk in Expa... by SOLAR_FIELDS on Friday December 21, 2018 @08:06PM (#18738179)
Did you read the article? The author specifically is not referring to procreation, but rather risky sexual behavior for contracting HIV in Africa.
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Re:Lottery-Like Prizes Coax Savings. What’s the Risk in Expa... by nyc_pizzadev on Friday December 21, 2018 @08:19PM (#18738240)
Not the whole thing, sorry, you are correct.
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