Re:The Online Sports Gambling Experiment Has Failed
by seanmcdirmid on Monday November 11, 2024 @10:59PM
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But then we are just stuck between option 1 and 2 as we are right now. My point is option 3: libertarian no-ban but full social safety net is the opposite of ideal, while options 1 and 2 are ideal but not achievable.
So here we are with some rules and some safety net, because its the only workable option?
Re:The Online Sports Gambling Experiment Has Failed
by valval on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @04:25AM
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Option 1: Increase punishments. Singapore handles this quite well.
Option 2: Goes back to 1. What does “messing” things up even mean? Losing everything and committing crimes? Increased punishments for the crimes.
After that we need to focus on making the cost of the punishments cheaper.
Option 1: full ban on alcohol and hard drugs because we have safety nets in place - basically similar to hard drugs today, but the bans are impossible to enforce and society is still constantly getting f*ked (take a walk anywhere in SF).
Option 2: libertarian style, no bans on any vice but personal responsibility is in full force, no bailouts for those who get in trouble. Problem is the addicts will still make a huge mess of things for the rest of us and they won’t clean up those “messes” themselves so we either put up with massive crime and addicts everywhere… or grudgingly pay for them anyway.
I’m not saying any of this to rebut and say you’re wrong, rather, I agree with you that those would be the ideal combos but I don’t know how we could make them a reality.