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> Why else are gambling providers forced to include addiction recovery phone numbers with their ads?

Some people are sick and cant control themselves.

> No, and this is equally as insincere as your first statement.

Neither comments were insincere.

> Gambling takes money without offering a fair return in goods or services.

It provides entertainment, same thing tickets to the event provide. A lot cheaper than seeing the game in person too.



> Some people are sick and cant control themselves.

If people being sick and not being to control themselves required an intervention phone number in general, we'd run out of 10-digit numbers faster than Elon lasted in the government :)

> It provides entertainment, same thing tickets to the event provide. A lot cheaper than seeing the game in person too.

This 100% is the reason most if not all of my friends put money on the games. Not sure why this is so hard for A LOT of people to understand, putting money on the games gives many people I know more of a rush than sky diving




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