People 'demand' the opportunity to gamble away money they do not have, just like people 'demand' money from loan sharks at extortionate interest rates. This is a warped, empty type of freedom, in which the powerful are free to exploit the vulnerable.
Copy QuoteA nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
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