>As a book author and now VP radio personality I'm worried (terrified actually) that I could be promoting negative expectancy and or problem gambling in any way. What is profitable for some and simply fun for others, can be a life ending addiction for many sad individuals.
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>Therefore it has to be my policy to promote non-recreational professional play, so I can get some sleep at nights. I care far more about not hurting anyone, than I do about taking the popular party line and promoting gambling and my sales.
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>Gambling can be a incredibly destructive addiction!!! Please don't forget that.
My theory is that anything that can be addictive must have something
good about it, which is true of just about anything. Recreational
gambling doesn't have much appeal to me, but I find it hard to believe
that all recreational gamblers are making a mistake. I assume the
attraction is similar to my attraction to the suspense of not knowing
how, say, a movie or a sporting event will end and I suspect that
professional gamblers would find their occupation much more tedious if
casinos mailed them checks for their expected value and negated all
their fluctuation.
But influential people should be careful of what Frank is referring
to. I routinely jaywalk and often, a crowd of people follows me
across the street. I'd hate to have one of them have an accident just
because they blindly followed me. They may have the primary
responsibility for being careful, but I believe I still have some
responsibility. There have been situations in which I have believed
that I could have safely jaywalked, but that, if other, less careful
people had followed me, they might not have been safe, when I have
waited until the "walk" sign.
