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Message: [QUOTE="OzExorcist, post: 1736425, member: 23910"] Two things. First of all, as I've stated before, for you to win at online poker someone else has to lose money. You [B]are[/B] hurting someone else by playing online poker and it's pretty freaking direct too. Never forget that. Second, while I applaud the effort to improve freedoms across the board, I suspect that this isn't a problem with one universal solution and that each issue will have to be argued individually, on its own merits. The arguments for legalising gay marriage and online poker are very different, for example, and I really can't see a blanket campaign that's going to work for both issues - ignoring the fact that any such campaign would have to be so broad in scope that it would essentially lose all meaning. Absolutely positively 100% correct. That doesn't help us though because as we've pointed out above opponents of online poker will argue that legalising online poker will result in [B]more[/B] problem gambling as a result of the ease of access. The problem gamblers that already exist will still be problem gamblers but what happens when, say, a few million Zynga Poker players move over to a real money site, get addicted and lose loads of money? Those are brand new problem gamblers that we wouldn't have had if we hadn't have legalised online poker. Personally, in anticipation of that argument, I'd respond that regulation would be able to enforce protections for [B]all[/B] problem gamblers, new and old alike. In the current environment there really aren't any problem gambling protections built into online poker, at least not effective ones - in fact, the current laws force the sites to advertise their services as "fun and risk free" which is clearly misleading. Problem gamblers gonna gamble, we may as well regulate to provide protections and derive revenue, some of which can be put towards support services for them and society at large. [/QUOTE]

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