Gambling’s Bad for Your Liver

Hey man, you can’t just BECOME an alcoholic without a lot of practice, you know? And, as much as you want to say that places don’t encourage you to drink, they sure fucking do. I mean, bars are the places you go to escape your daily life, whether it be just for the weekend with your slutty friends and their awful dresses they don’t fit in, or whether it’s an every day after work “i hate myself and want to drink my life away” thing, bars are condusive to cyclical behavior. If you feel good there and the bar solved your problem, then what are you going to do when you want to feel good again? Bar.

Same thing with gambling. Sure, no one is holding a gun to your head to gamble, but the people who open casinos know how the human mind works and know that if you get a taste, you’re going to convince yourself you can get more because you need money to feed your kids or your growing prescription drug addiction.

Either way, you can’t OUTRIGHTLY blame bars or casinos if you believe in free will. I mean, even though we know that they prey on people’s weaknesses, like I said, no one is literally holding a gun to someone’s head telling them to take a shot.

Well, there was that ONE time …

About 20 people are on the sidewalk in front of the South Side casino, mostly dressed in black and carrying signs decrying gambling.

“No one wins in gambling” reads one, while others state “Gambling hurts” and “The odds are against you.”

“Gambling is harmful and a menace to society,” said protester Stephen Drachler, executive director of the United Methodist Witness, a statewide advocacy group for the United Methodist Church. “There ought to be a better way to fund government services.” Source

Eh I find it funny how a church, another organization that relies on some form of brain washing, takes issue with a casino, which does the same type of brain washing, except the all mighty dollar is their Jesus.

Anyhoo, expect more of this from time to time, especially when church groups get bored in the summer.

I bet if they were to receive a shot at $10,000 by buying a $1 ticket they’d be like, “oh, well it helps senior citizens, right?”

We’re all walking double standards.