Re: Poker = A legitimate profession - please help PROVE this!!!!
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How come there has been almost no discussion in this thread about the fact that poker players exploit other people's unhappiness e.g gambling addicts.
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Statments like these assume that the majority of opponents are addicts, have no control over thier own spending money, yada yada. Come on, whatever happened to personal responsibility? These are adults you're playing against, if they are going to make poor decisions in life, they will do it whether you're willing to play poker with them or not. Sigmund Freud hypothesized that gambling addicts are inherently self destructive and gamble compulsively to punish themselves. This is akin to cutters who slit their wrists as a cry for help. I suppose we should prohibit the sale of knives and stop using them to protect them to. We should also reinstate alcohol prohibition so that alcoholics won't feel the urge to drink, etc.
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