Good morning, everybody. I hope you're doing well. Stefan Mollini from Free Domain. Come join the greatest

philosophical community in the history of the known and unknown universe as non-verified by non-experts

in a non-objective fashion. Freedomain.locals.com. All right. Question, what are your thoughts on the

morality of gambling and making money from gamblers?

It doesn't seem to violate UPB or the non-aggression principle.

But to me, it's always seemed scummy and manipulative.

Instead of providing any value, these businesses make money off of dumb people's inability

to discern probabilities.

Well, to say that all gamblers are dumb, that gambling is a tax on mathematical illiteracy, I think is, I mean, obviously true to some

degree, but it is missing the central point. Sorry to be annoying right at the beginning.

You've missed the central point. Let me make the case and, you know, maybe I'm right, maybe I'm

wrong. So, UPB is, there are five categories, right? Two of which

are mirrors of the other. So think of them as good, nice, neutral, bad, and evil. Good, nice,

neutral, bad, and evil, right? So the good mirrors the evil,

the nice mirrors the bad, and neutral doesn't mirror because, you know, zero is not the opposite

of any number, right? So good is, say, respecting property rights, evil is a stealing, killing, raping, you know, violations of persons

and property. So that's good versus evil. Nice versus bad. It's nice to be on time. It's bad to be

late as a whole, right? It's not evil. like you can't shoot someone for being late, right?

So it's nice. This is what I've referred to as aesthetically preferable actions.

So, you know, reasonably polite, you know, not yelling obscenities in front of children,

whatever it is, right? I mean, you can't shoot people for doing that,

but it's not nice or good. Being relatively diplomatic when you approach people and so on, right?

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