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Post by soulflower on Mar 17, 2024 10:56:40 GMT -5
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Post by Evil Yoda on Mar 17, 2024 11:20:21 GMT -5
Seize his house, his car, anything he has of value. Sell it and give everything to those from whom he stole. Even if it earns more than he stole. Make a vicious example of him. Friggin' gambling degenerates (but I repeat myself).
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Post by vosa on Mar 17, 2024 15:04:42 GMT -5
Seize his house, his car, anything he has of value. Sell it and give everything to those from whom he stole. Even if it earns more than he stole. Make a vicious example of him. Friggin' gambling degenerates (but I repeat myself). There you go again with your hasty generalization logical fallacy. Not all people who gamble are degenerates. Not all people who gamble steal to support their gambling. You made some sense in your 1st 3 sentences but then you went off the rails. You need to be more discerning in your judgement of people.
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Post by guido2 on Mar 17, 2024 16:31:25 GMT -5
Seize his house, his car, anything he has of value. Sell it and give everything to those from whom he stole. Even if it earns more than he stole. Make a vicious example of him. Friggin' gambling degenerates (but I repeat myself). There you go again with your hasty generalization logical fallacy. Not all people who gamble are degenerates. Not all people who gamble steal to support their gambling. You made some sense in your 1st 3 sentences but then you went off the rails. You need to be more discerning in your judgement of people. I will use small words. Degenerates was probably the wrong word on EYs ..... losers is better. But there are a lot of 'losers'..... drugs, gambling, literally stealing money from school kids and can't keep their zipper .... zipped and so on. (Oh btw the last mayor of Baltimore to go to jail got out. My point is that regardless of which failure is there. IMHO, there is a difference between f'ing up your own life and screwing up everybody elses.
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Post by vosa on Mar 17, 2024 17:20:10 GMT -5
There you go again with your hasty generalization logical fallacy. Not all people who gamble are degenerates. Not all people who gamble steal to support their gambling. You made some sense in your 1st 3 sentences but then you went off the rails. You need to be more discerning in your judgement of people. I will use small words. Degenerates was probably the wrong word on EYs ..... losers is better. But there are a lot of 'losers'..... drugs, gambling, literally stealing money from school kids and can't keep their zipper .... zipped and so on. (Oh btw the last mayor of Baltimore to go to jail got out. My point is that regardless of which failure is there. IMHO, there is a difference between f'ing up your own life and screwing up everybody elses. OK, let's do the substitution - "Friggin' gambling losers (but I repeat myself)." The problem remains. Gamblers as a group, which we must assume EY was talking about since he does not specify any particular type of gambler, are not anything. Some gamblers are losers, some are winners. Some gamblers are women, some are men. Some gamblers are young, some are old. Some gamblers are Black, some are White. Some gamblers are addicts, some are not. EY has a history of painting things with a broad brush. He scoops up entire groups of people and sticks a label on them without taking into account that within the group he maligns there maybe sub-groups that are not guilty of the charge he is leveling.
And you are right. There are some people who screws up their lives and the lives of other people. But we must also acknowledge that there are people who screws up their lives but have no impact on the lives of others.
Like most things in life specificity is always advisable when leveling a criticism.
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Post by pickle20 on Mar 18, 2024 6:23:46 GMT -5
Piece of crap.
And yes this guy sounds like a degenerate with a gambling problem.
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Post by cowboyz on Mar 18, 2024 7:16:54 GMT -5
His poor kid will take some of the heat because people are unkind.
I hope he goes to jail, I hope they seize whatever they can personally and he is made to pay back every red scent plus more.
I hope CPS takes a look at him. If he is stealing money meant for kids, I will guess he is not fit to properly parent.
He needs consequences and gambling rehab.
Damn... some people suck.
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Post by augustwest on Mar 18, 2024 8:32:06 GMT -5
Seize his house, his car, anything he has of value. Sell it and give everything to those from whom he stole. Even if it earns more than he stole. Make a vicious example of him. Friggin' gambling degenerates (but I repeat myself). I caught an employee stealing a couple years ago. After he was fired his emails were forwarded to me for a while. He was a VIP member of every casino in the area. High earning salesman and was deep in debt. I don’t know if enough people know how common this is. Gambling addiction is a serious problem and it becomes all of our problem when these scum bags start stealing to feed it. Almost every embezzlement case you see is tied to gambling
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Post by summer23 on Mar 18, 2024 8:59:50 GMT -5
Seize his house, his car, anything he has of value. Sell it and give everything to those from whom he stole. Even if it earns more than he stole. Make a vicious example of him. Friggin' gambling degenerates (but I repeat myself). He needs to make restitution for sure. He could be someone with a gambling addiction. Like any other addiction, like drugs, alcohol, eating, etc., he needs treatment. Not all gamblers are degenerates. Not all addicts are degenerates. I know that it is difficult for near perfect people to understand that humans are fallible but do try. You sound like a far right Republican.
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Post by soulflower on Mar 18, 2024 9:07:47 GMT -5
The DraftKings and FanDuel stuff is booming but I suspect that a consequence of the new legalized online sports gambling is that gambling addiction is becoming more common.
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Post by Evil Yoda on Mar 18, 2024 12:41:27 GMT -5
Gambling is like anything else hooked into the brain's reward pathways. Almost certain to get worse over time unless one maintains rigorous self-discipline of the type I don't see a lot of. People start down that road and may not understand this.
To misquote Gretzky or Jordan or some athlete... you will not get addicted to 100% of the poor habits you never start. Gambling is one of them.
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Post by summer23 on Mar 18, 2024 14:23:07 GMT -5
Gambling is like anything else hooked into the brain's reward pathways. Almost certain to get worse over time unless one maintains rigorous self-discipline of the type I don't see a lot of. People start down that road and may not understand this. To misquote Gretzky or Jordan or some athlete... you will not get addicted to 100% of the poor habits you never start. Gambling is one of them. SMH. Your opinions really are self-righteous at times.
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Post by vosa on Mar 19, 2024 6:07:32 GMT -5
Gambling is like anything else hooked into the brain's reward pathways. Almost certain to get worse over time unless one maintains rigorous self-discipline of the type I don't see a lot of. People start down that road and may not understand this. To misquote Gretzky or Jordan or some athlete... you will not get addicted to 100% of the poor habits you never start. Gambling is one of them. SMH. Your opinions really are self-righteous at times. He doesn't understand that humans are fallible. And he's not even a far right Republican.
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Post by Evil Yoda on Mar 20, 2024 17:41:35 GMT -5
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Post by soulflower on Mar 20, 2024 18:50:51 GMT -5
It's just too easy to gamble nowadays. Not that gambling wasn't a problem before we could place bets from our smartphones but stories of gambling addiction are becoming more common today it seems.
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Post by Evil Yoda on Mar 20, 2024 19:41:14 GMT -5
It's just too easy to gamble nowadays. Not that gambling wasn't a problem before we could place bets from our smartphones but stories of gambling addiction are becoming more common today it seems. I agree. Operations like DraftKings and FanDuel (and their perhaps less well-known competitors) I regard as essentially predatory. That's not to suggest people bear no responsibility for their decisions, because they do bear such responsibility. But I regard business models built on exploiting the weaknesses of others as reprehensible, particularly when the consequences of becoming ensnared will often affect people beyond the victim.
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