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Hi Taraz

This weighing of good and bad is interesting. If I were a tobacco company lobbyist, I could make the same claim that the job does me and everyone around me a great deal of good, but as far as I can see, every single person buying a cigarette is acting irrationally ( in a harmful way ) and therefore I’m acting more immoral than moral . Whereas in poker, my guess is there are more winners than most people think, and even among the losers, many, if not most, are taking something beneficial away from the table that they can use in their everyday lives.
I think there must be a degree of difference between being a poker player, a priest, a politician, etc. I’m biased, but if I were to guess, I would say that a poker player is the lesser evil, of many of these questionable legal endeavors and indeed poker may well provide an overall net good.