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Gambling on life and death should be illegal. Industry that grows around such a thing inevitably has an incentive to encourage war to happen or never end.
if people could bet on shareholders death, it would provide incentive structure for concerning stuff, but obviously that’s why that is explicitly forbidden on polymarket. So they did think about it, but only about public figures, not the plebs (or at least with some obfuscation, as is here).
But I still don’t get how do they even create this shit in that case, who is betting for and against, like why, just due to odds?
I wouldn't go that far. Disorganised forms of gambling at small scales and wagers are probably fine, I wouldn't want to criminalise harmless betting between small groups. It's organised gambling that is a real problem. The local poker night with £10 buy ins doesn't need a to be illegal.
Agree, it would be anyway unenforcable on small scale.