You're just being dishonest. The emphatic way you compared
> professional gambling to a "real job" unmistakably implied that it's
> better to have a "real job" than to be a professional gambler. Would
> you say, with a straight face, that you meant no value judgment when
> you wrote that the life of a professional gambler "was an empty,
> pointless existence?" If you don't believe that contributing to
> society is better than not contributing to society, why did you use it
> as a criterion for comparing the two ways of life?
>>>Once again, I must object to someone, you in this case, putting
words in my mouth. For a given person, an "empty, pointless existence"
may very well be the best that he can achieve--at least he does no
active harm. A person whose antisocial tendencies make him unfit for
the world of work still needs to survive, and in point of fact the
world of gambling provides just such an opportunity for such a person.
>>>You can read any kind of implication you want into what I said, but
my characterizing professional gambling as not a "real job" was meant
to point out that the profession is not one deserving any kind of
favors or special treatment from the VPFree community.
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