alt Hacker News>but government lost any moral high ground when they legalized state lotteries.
What's the implication here? "In for a penny, in for a pound", so might as well legalize every other form of gambling?
>but government lost any moral high ground when they legalized state lotteries.
What's the implication here? "In for a penny, in for a pound", so might as well legalize every other form of gambling?
I think so. If you're going to regulate sports betting (and I think there are good arguments for doing that), but you yourself run a lottery which is a tax on people who don't understand probability, then you are just preaching in a "do as I say not as I do" kind of way.