Sports betting needs to be illegal again. You people are ruining lives all in the sake of profit. Ruining lives for shareholders. People could always gamble if they actually wanted to. Now you have ads every where, 24/7, tv, radio, on planes, in busses. Everywhere you look. It is sickening and people are profiting off of human beings with a disease. Non stop, right this very second someone is losing everything.
Ban mobile sports betting! It should not be this easy for someone to lose everything. They went from having access to people who frequent an established casino, to now going after young and desperate people on their own couch, in their own homes, robbing them blind!
Offering fantasy lines to lure desperate idiots. I know karma is real and I often wonder what these people behind the scenes are feeling? Heartless scum
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I don’t think that’s an unpopular opinion
If you make it illegal then you’ll just be putting money into the hands of criminals. Would you rather someone go into debt, or someone get murdered because they owed the mafia money?
Self control; don’t gotta ruin it for everyone because your UNCLE can’t control his gambling addiction
Its like any vice.. you do it in moderation.. no problem
Why should we ban mobile sports betting and not all other gambling (including lotto)? And alcohol? Tobacco? Processed sugars? If we did an analysis of how much damage all the bad legal things do, I’d doubt sports betting would crack top 5, probably not even top 10
It doesn’t need to be illegal but it should be returned to the system where you have to go to a place to do it instead of being able to do it your phone at any time
It’s not someone else’s job to help you quit an addiction.
It’s illegal in tons of places, people still do it. If people want to ruin their lives, there’s endless ways of doing it.
Personal accountability is all that matters.
Gambling is awesome, actually.
Evwrything in moderation. Why dont you people feel this stongly about alcohol? The sells it everywhere, advertisements and commercials for it all the time. Why is that any different?
I’m not a fan of sports betting either. So I do this cool thing called…not betting on sports.
So then society turns to illegal bookies and shit hits the fan when they can’t pay their debts? Yep, that works.
What’s another example of prohibition working well?
Genuinely can’t think of one.
If people wish to be throw their money away, that’s their prerogative.
I gamble $1 on the outcome of games. I enjoy it. If I lose, oh well. If i win, cool. I’ve been doing it for 10+ years. Sports gambling doesn’t have to be a big deal. If it is a big deal for you, you shouldn’t do it. I’m going to drink a couple of beers tonight and watch rugby. Do you want to ban alcohol as well?
You just lost money? Usually if you don’t like something you can just avoid it.
Don’t ban it. Too much is banned in the name of safety. Yes, I believe gambling is stupid, but people should have the right to do what they want with their own money, even if it’s detrimental to them.
Because history has clearly shown that prohibition is a successful deterrent.
You can’t legislate morality or self control. Your problem is not society’s responsibility to monitor
Make it easier, should automatically add permission to notification after tos
I take it you’ve never actually used any of these apps? Most of them have regular warnings about problem gambling, allow you to ban your own account so you can’t bet anymore if you decide to quit, and ket you set limits on how much you can deposit in a week or month.
And it’s not like it’s hard to use an offshore casino like bovada or bookmaker. My state has online sports betting but not games, and I don’t like driving an hour to an hour and a half round trip just to play a few hands of blackjack or video poker so I just use one of the cayman island or Latvian online casinos.
Learn to take accountability and stop blaming others for why you’re the way you are or your actions.
Problems gamblers are gamblers in one way or another. That’s who they are. People that want to keep eating no matter how they look, have that option; so do gamblers.
i think the ads need to be banned. i cannot stand the same gambling ads from some random ass bet(insert name/number) company every time i try to watch anything
Alcohol, tobacco, terrible diets, and processed foods have ruined way more lives than gambling. When it wasn’t legal, I used overseas books. You can’t control people’s lives to the point of not letting them do anything.
>absolutely nothing
Not true. They are diverting problem gamblers, but only the ones that consistently win lol.
But seriously, I’m not joking. For the hard core sports gamblers that dive into the analytics and win often, sports books ban them. They get banned by playing fair and winning too much
You don’t punish people who follow the rules because some people are stupid.
I think people should be able to ban themselves from addictive things like gambling and alcohol because of how destructive it can be to their lives. Like an alcoholic his ID will scan and show up on a registry saying nope this person self banned themselves. Same thing for gambling. Make it so people can take themselves off the registry, but it’s a 3 month delay so they can’t just do it in a moment of weakness
Karma is only real if you believe in it, and these people only believe in one god. And that God is $$.
Thats a lie!!!! There not doing nothing.
They’re actively targeting and enhancing the experience for problematic gamblers to keep them coming back.
Take away the commercials at least