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Most noteworthy for me is the fact that more Americans think that porn (52%) and homosexuality (39%) are wrong than spanking children (23%) and being ultra wealthy (18%).
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https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2026/03/19/what-do-americans-consider-immoral/
I think I’m heading back toward gambling being morally wrong. I mean, it’s not, but it can be self-destructive, and willingly work with immoral entities - most companies that profit from gambling are exploiting people’s weaknesses to harm them. That’s a whole lot of immoral all over a mildly amusing activity
At minimum online gambling should be outlawed. That whole industry seems to make the issue so much worse compared to how it was historically.
Gambling in the micro is not morally wrong. Games between friends with stakes and the like is perfectly fine.
Running a casino or sportsbook is almost certainly exploiting problem gamblers in a way that is unequivocally morally wrong.
It's not just damage. It seeds corruption, as is plain as day with Polymarket now.
I do believe it has crossed the line to "public hazard"
Imagine bankrupting a casino when most of your customers are addicts 👀
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.
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
Gambling is addictive and can ruin lives.
Addiction ruins lives, like practically everything that triggers dopamine, gambling can be very addictive.
Addicts are going to find an addiction, it's part of their wiring. You can change your addiction to another less harmful addiction, or rewire yourself with a lot of work.
That’s not really true. Anyone can become addicted to something. There’s not some “addict wiring” that some people are born with and some aren’t. Obviously some things increase your risk factor for addiction, like having ADHD or a traumatic childhood, but even those are correlations, not causation.