Re: Is Playing Poker Professionally Ethical?
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The bottom line is that you're not producing anything when you play poker. You're taking money off others and providing nothing in return. Ethics of poker aside, how can any self respecting person accept this as their profession?
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I haven't read the whole thread but if this is the bottom line, let me answer it...
The western world has too much stuff as it is, so I don't feel obliged to create more. The thing western people need the most IMO is to slow down, think more deeply and stop being slaves to an oppressive system that just gobbles up peoples' souls and spits them out. Playing poker is one way to do that and is therefore a positive thing and tends to move humanity forwards rather than backwards, albeit indirectly.
And if you argue that the third world needs help, then that pretty much renders 99% of all jobs in America unethical.
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