[ChipFerFree]

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I'm confused by your position.

If you want poker to be allowed than you must believe that it is ethically/morally permissibly.



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OK I don't want to side with William here because I believe his stance is simply too extreme -- but this statement strikes me as untrue -- at least for me.

I have in fact posted questions as to the morality of poker before. I am a consistently winning player. I do NOT make my living from poker. I do however have serious questions about it's morality. In it's simplest form -- the goal is to prey on the weak. Is that ok?

I'm simply not sure and I have done battle in my mind over this for several years.

So bottom line -- I don't think that simply wanting poker to be 'allowed' equates to someone thinking that it is unequivocally MORAL or ETHICAL -- that is a false assumption since I want it to be 'allowed' and I'm pretty sure I'm letting my greed TILT me in a potentially immoral direction. I don't think I'm alone here, but one never knows...