alt Hacker NewsGambling can be a fun way to make a game more interesting. Some people can't stop there, but government lost any moral high ground when they legalized state lotteries.
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Does it really make games more interesting? If anything, doesn't it add anxiety as you watch the game?
Is anxiety interesting?
And if you only bet a negligible amount of money, then the outcome of the game doesn't really matter all that much.
Fun turns to disaster when you lose. Sadly, many can't control it, destroying entire lives in the process.
(Not passing judgment)
There are significant, real differences in betting on a random number generator once a week and betting constantly on the real outcomes of individual behaviors. Most notably with sports, institutionalized prop bets destroy the integrity of the game.
At least with win/loss, the ability to outright manipulate the outcome for financial gain by players, coaches and refs is a lot harder to accomplish without detection. Prop bets? Who knows if a player or ref or coach made a decision on who gets the first 3pt basket of the second half?
"Someone did a bad thing, now we must do all the bad things."
>but government lost any moral high ground when they legalized state lotteries.
What's the implication here? "In for a penny, in for a pound", so might as well legalize every other form of gambling?