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I support banning it. And it's advertising, too. Maybe impose some form of daily limit on in-person gambling as well.
Why stop at online. The amount of pensioners and vulnerable people wasting their money on horses and fruit machines is pretty depressing.
On the one hand, I strongly believe in personal freedom (as long as you're only harming yourself) and if people want to spend their money, that way it should be up to them. On the other hand, some people are vulnerable and need to be protected from themselves.
But they're spending their kids' inheritance. I can see the innocence in putting a few quid against your mates betting on horses. But capitalised rigged gambling is just immoral
How incredibly entitled can you be?
I think it's a fair point just not well made.
To paraphrase my first reply, to each their own, if someone truly enjoys gambling, they'll find a way to do it, legal or not.
However, there is a lot of good that money could be doing, whether it is used to help your kids or anything else like that, rather than it being hoovered up by fat cat CEOs and people that hold shares in gambling businesses.