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Message: [QUOTE="Michael Paler, post: 2119588, member: 96446"] Do not fool yourself! Look, New York tried to ban large soda's, and it was just stupid; People will simply buy 2 smaller ones. Or go someplace else. You just cannot control the people who abuse things, and by trying you instead abuse those of us who do not have a problem! You really think limiting deposits will have an affect? It will not. They will then just deposit on more locations, or go and blow it elsewhere. I realize the tragedies that occur, but you simply cannot regulate bad behavior. IT NEVER WORKS. Go to any small casino and you will see folks who run in with the family paycheck, every dime to their name, ASAP. You close it down, they go someplace else. What about the good old state lottery? It's for a good cause, our schools, right? Bull hockey!! You know how many do the same thing...blow half or more of their weekly pay hoping to hit odds that are in the millions-to-one?!? How many spend every dime buying those tickets? Is education of a child more important than a roof over his head or food in his stomach? Yet, lets face it - you close down the lotto, they will just find another place to spend it. What then? Take their money from them and dole it out? Force them to do the right thing? At that point, welcome to communism. Be careful where this line of thinking takes you. Who will decide who has a problem and needs to be controlled? Who will decide what constitutes a problem in the first place? Not you, Not me. BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR. Sadly, the only thing that can ever possibly help an addict of any kind is the addict him or her self. It's never a program or restrictions, ITS THEM! Just because they follow a ten step program, that does not mean that it "worked". The abuser has to want it to work. With gambling, It's (sadly) just never going to happen until they are out on the curb, family and all opportunity lost, and sick of what has happened more than they are happy when betting. You just hope to God it doesn't get that far before they wake up. I think Eric Lindgren has a problem with sports betting or horses, and he woke up before it was too late. I wish him all the luck in the world, but I will not support limiting my freedoms to accommodate his bad behavior, nor do I think he would either. We just have to accept the fact that some people will always have weaknesses, and they are the only ones who can cure it. Help them, support them, yes, yes. But do not control them. Put up a fence, they will climb over it, under it, around it; They must simply no longer want what is being fenced in. [/QUOTE]

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