Yes, because you have a greater capacity to retain your values despite overwhelming incentives not to do so.
Gambling in this way destroys people and their families, much like drug addiction. You might say those people are "vulnerable" in some special inherent way, but really, they just happen to be in different circumstances than you.
My view is that your enjoyment here has a cost: it preserves environments we know cause human animals to change for the worse. I don't see that as, empirically, a controversial point.
Casinos take a healthy rat in, and frequently, an unhealthy rat leaves.
Behind all this "decision making" is the reality of human psychology, and of abuse, trauma, and health. And it is no hidden thing that gambling, opioid over-prescription, prostitution... as environments take in healthy desperate animals and exist deeply unhealthy ones.
This transition preserves "freedom" in the libertarian sense -- and it is my view therefore that this sense is pathological and misunderstands people.
What you are saying is that pre-post casino you retain your freedom (in the intuitive, healthy sense). Alas very many people do not.
When environments cause people to give up on values that keep them healthy, those environments are sick and make people sick. Humans are not blank slate masters of everything: we're animals. And what we need isnt arbitrary and different and unique and special.
There are some values so essential that when we see people giving them up, we ought regard the perpetrators of that changes as abusive manipulators; or at least, naively engaging in abuse.
Gambling in this way destroys people and their families, much like drug addiction. You might say those people are "vulnerable" in some special inherent way, but really, they just happen to be in different circumstances than you.
My view is that your enjoyment here has a cost: it preserves environments we know cause human animals to change for the worse. I don't see that as, empirically, a controversial point.
Casinos take a healthy rat in, and frequently, an unhealthy rat leaves.
Behind all this "decision making" is the reality of human psychology, and of abuse, trauma, and health. And it is no hidden thing that gambling, opioid over-prescription, prostitution... as environments take in healthy desperate animals and exist deeply unhealthy ones.
This transition preserves "freedom" in the libertarian sense -- and it is my view therefore that this sense is pathological and misunderstands people.
What you are saying is that pre-post casino you retain your freedom (in the intuitive, healthy sense). Alas very many people do not.
When environments cause people to give up on values that keep them healthy, those environments are sick and make people sick. Humans are not blank slate masters of everything: we're animals. And what we need isnt arbitrary and different and unique and special.
There are some values so essential that when we see people giving them up, we ought regard the perpetrators of that changes as abusive manipulators; or at least, naively engaging in abuse.