Oh come on, this is some doublethink if ever I saw it.
> Every 6th employee in the industry would also be addicted
No- the employees would be out of a job if the addicts werent in there, they see both sides of the coin, winners and losers, and have a completely different perspective on gambling. If anything I’d expect employees to be more immune to addiction than anything else.
Your arguments 4 & 5 can be applied directly to hard drugs without modification.
I don’t think gambling or what you do is immoral, but if your line of thinking is how you justify your job you should think again as it sounds like it doesn’t match up with your own morals.
There is an important distinction between "program these 30 machines such that every 5 someone gets a pay out" and "program this machine such that 1 out of every n pulls is a pay out."
Oh come on, this is some doublethink if ever I saw it.
> Every 6th employee in the industry would also be addicted
No- the employees would be out of a job if the addicts werent in there, they see both sides of the coin, winners and losers, and have a completely different perspective on gambling. If anything I’d expect employees to be more immune to addiction than anything else.
Your arguments 4 & 5 can be applied directly to hard drugs without modification.
I don’t think gambling or what you do is immoral, but if your line of thinking is how you justify your job you should think again as it sounds like it doesn’t match up with your own morals.