Anonymous #1 19w

How old are you?

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Anonymous #2 19w

28 (graduate student)

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Anonymous #1 19w

Same. Especially sports betting. That shit Is out of control.

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Anonymous #4 19w

Alcohol is an objectively bad thing for society but that doesn’t mean we should criminalize it. (We’ve already tried, it didn’t work out well). This is America. People have the freedom to ruin their lives via scams if they want to. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t implement regulations so that gambling services aren’t tricking their consumers.

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Anonymous #6 19w

Alcohol is not objectively bad for society. Gambling especially on sports and events and the way they have been promoted relentlessly across every social media platform is not a minor problem. I’d argue the relentless promotion and forming of partnerships with universities and pro sports teams is a bigger problem than the gambling itself. Gambling doesn’t need to be banned just heavily restricted, especially in the way it advertises

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Anonymous #3 19w

While I totally agree with you, I’ll not pick on alcohol. It’s absolutely bad for society, in at least select ways, it kills nearly 180k people a year and its addictions cause mental turmoil and breaks that split families and cause irreparable emotional harm. It contributes significantly to the obesity crisis here too, and is nothing but a poison we enjoy the effects of. The only reason it didn’t stay illegal is because people were too addicted to it and it’s too ingrained in our history

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Anonymous #7 19w

But if it was a new drug it would absolutely be restricted and made illegal, it isn’t even hijacking other systems somewhat simply like modern synthetics do it just straight up poisons you and damages your body in very understood and negative ways. I’m not really arguing for its outright removal, I drink occasionally too, but we definitely have an unhealthy relationship with it as a whole

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