Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watcgl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watnot!watcgl!jchapman From: jchapman@watcgl.UUCP (john chapman) Newsgroups: can.politics Subject: Re: Lotteries Message-ID: <2205@watcgl.UUCP> Date: Mon, 15-Jul-85 10:10:32 EDT Article-I.D.: watcgl.2205 Posted: Mon Jul 15 10:10:32 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 17-Jul-85 03:01:41 EDT References: <1121@ubc-cs.UUCP> <1110@mnetor.UUCP> Distribution: can Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 25 . . . > > Also, to put some oil on troubled flames: is there anything so wrong > with profiting from people's stupidity (if indeed lottery playing is stupid) > when the consequences have been clearly pointed out to the victims? > How about rephrasing the question as: Is there anything so wrong with conditioning people to behave in a certain way and then profitting from their inability to control the conditioned response after they have been warned of the consequences of the conditioned response? . . . > > Martin Taylor > {allegra,linus,ihnp4,floyd,ubc-vision}!utzoo!dciem!mmt > {uw-beaver,qucis,watmath}!utcsri!dciem!mmt John Chapman ...!watmath!watcgl!jchapman