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From: jimomura@lsuc.UUCP
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: Lotteries
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Date: Fri, 12-Jul-85 00:05:03 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 12 00:05:03 1985
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Reply-To: jimomura@lsuc.UUCP (Jim Omura|Barrister Jimomura Solicitor|Toronto)
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Summary: Lotteries


     I'm an not exactly hopelessly poor (though definitely not rich)
and I doubt if I am stupid by most normal measurements (my third yr.
at U. of Windsor law school saw me ranked something like top 20%).
 
     I buy lottery tickets.  Not many, and not with any expectation
of winning.  I also enter some other contests on occasion.  Ironically,
my win/loss average over my lifetime may actually be on the plus side
(most things I enter are free or for the cost of a postage stamp and
envelope).  Mainly it depends on how you value some of the non-money
things I've won.
 
     Like I said.  Morality is your business (or Fred's or anybody
elses).  I don't feel my above statement makes your reasoning invalid.
Maybe you're right.  I guess I just don't *feel* that gamblings wrong.
I have no religious basis for morality (not in the traditional sense)
which is what I expected Fred to put forward (or anybody else).

-- 
James Omura, Barrister & Solicitor, Toronto
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