What good are we? As poker players, are we socially responsible?

[I am fish]

People have to take personal responsibility like in anything else. You can drink alcohol for fun, but it can be abused. That doesn't make drinking alcohol wrong on the whole.

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People have to take personal responsibility like in anything else. You can drink alcohol for fun, but it can be abused. That doesn't make drinking alcohol wrong on the whole.

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I'm sorry to say we have moved on from that into the era of the "Blame Culture".

I don't have to be responsible for anything- it is somebody's elses fault and I'm going to sue 'em!

I know.... it's really sad. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

Ian

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People have to take personal responsibility like in anything else. You can drink alcohol for fun, but it can be abused. That doesn't make drinking alcohol wrong on the whole.

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I tend to agree with this for the most part. Most people who have gambling addiction, it is not so much the casino's fault, as it is human nature's. Addiction is addiction, one that is often attributed to compulsive behavior. If these people weren't pumping the slots full from morning to night, the chances are high that the little old blue-haired lady with her hand on the lever would likely be sitting home with her credit card out buying meaningless item after item on the Home Shopping Network, or sitting at the Royal Legion on her 8th draft telling tales of yesteryear, or, or...Point is, if the compulsive nature is there, the vessel for it is soon to arrive.

Unfortunately gambling is a vessel. I don't like to see it, but if Ma Kettle isn't spending her pension cheque on a stool pulling a lever, it is almost a guarantee it will be happening elsewhere.