Poker: A question of morality

[Warren Whitmore]

In any occupation there must be a transfer of funds. Lets take the most and least respected (for morality) occupations as examples.

A priest takes money generally from the poor for his own benifit and it could very well be someones rent money. On the other side of the spectrum a thief might break into someones home and steal thier money. I dont see much difference between the two. The difference that I do see is in the form of choice for the victim.

In the first case the person has the choice of giving his money to the priest. In the later the person does not. Poker on that spectrum is closer to the first than the second and therefor to my way of thinking more moral than average.

People like doctors I would place closer to the second extreame as most people have no choice pay or die similar to the thief.