So can be ban lotteries (and casinos, too) unless participants demonstrate they can afford the losses?
edit: If this country were rational enough for the solutions proposed in replies, we wouldn't even be having this conversation.
Not sure if you're trolling. Assuming you aren't, allow me to point out that your analogy is ridiculous. Fines are mandatory: you have to pay them or you face stiffer fines, and even jail. Lottery is completely voluntary. No one is forcing them to play.
And while we are involved in a discussion of human psychology. Maybe consider the mental aspects of extreme poverty and you can see that purchasing lottery tickets is not exactly voluntary but a desperate attempt to change the course of an exasperated existence. Just a thought.
For example. Drinking water is voluntary but if you go without water you might get the feeling it's a little more than a choice...
That's literally the only common thing between them. This doesn't make them "very related." It makes them tangentially related at best.
>>For example. Drinking water is voluntary but if you go without water you might get the feeling it's a little more than a choice...
Wow, so now you're comparing purchasing lottery tickets to drinking water. Amazing.
