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anyone to buy a lottery ticket. When you snatch someone's
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purse or rob someone, you do it against his will. And
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nobody actually forces anyone to buy lottery tickets or
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to enter in any type of gambling.
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When it is proposed that a lottery operated
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by the state would cause all these hardships that are
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spoken about, for example, those who are compulsive
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gamblers, those compulsive gamblers will not be affected
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one way or another as to whether you have a state-operated
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or not because compulsive gamblers will always find the
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means of gambling and no one in this world will be able
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to stop them. Many attempts have been made to prevent the
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illegal lottery and other illegal gambling without any
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success whatsoever at any place or any area.
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So that these people are diseased, I agree.
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They are just as diseased as alcoholics. We found
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that we could not prevent people from drinking by having
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prohibition. For can you prevent people from gambling
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by having any prohibition against gambling.
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This does not create the evil that he speaks
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of. The evil is there. This will not change it in any
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