I've heard of incidents where children are given Valve Steam giftcards to purchase games, but then turn around and use the funds on the gift card to gamble. The parents involved have no notion of gambling even being a possibility with these gift cards. The financial loses to the parents are minimal but real harm is still present since their child is being manipulated by adults to develop a gambling habit.
Is it the parent's fault for not researching the game store more carefully? Perhaps. But that's no reason to not regulate it. Casinos aren't allow to let children gamble, even though you could certainly blame the parents if their child wandered into a casino without their knowledge!
> I'm assuming you're referring to the royal you here.
Yes, definitely. Would you like to compare our e-p3nis?
> I suspect you're in favor of making all opiods [sic] legal as well?
Nice fallacy, but I'll take the bait.
Yes, in fact I am in favor of decriminalization of these substances, and Portugal is a great example of how decriminalization does not lead to anything you so anticipate. It does not lead to increased drug use, and leads to decreased drug-related injuries, and so on and so on. You can look up the evaluation of drug liberalization in Portugal. Decriminalization works and is effective, with its evident positive consequences. How about the war on drugs? How is it working out for you?
While we are at it, let's ban Kratom, too. Gotta support the Big Pharma, gotta eliminate the competition to make people with chronic pain wait and pay more. FDA claimed Kratom is an opioid and it has no medical value, and at the same time they are trying to extract the alkaloids from Kratom to make a prescription drug out of it. Fuck!ng A.
Anyone here with chronic pain that would like to see Kratom banned? Please speak up! Who wants to destroy their safer and cheaper route of management of their pain? :D
The salty parents would ask why you think it's ok to oppressively surveil everything that your child does, and say that you should be able to leave your child playing a game without risking exposing the child to tobaco, alcohol, ro gambling ads.
For the same reason you are perfectly fine with government surveillance and prohibition aggressively enforced by the State.
Just stop giving your kids money, or pay more attention to their spending habits. If you think attention to your kid is oppressive surveillance, then there is no hope for you. Apparently children are oppressed by their parents' attention and they are suddenly capable of looking after themselves, yet at the same time you are in favor of prohibition of in-game loot crates because children are not capable of looking after themselves, but you also can't look after them because that would be oppressive. The cognitive dissonance is real.
What's the benefit of allowing lootboxes? They're invented by business as a new way of attracting gamblers. Why shouldn't this be regulated or banned? Why is the burden on the general public to try and not be susceptible to gambling? It's pretty proven that various people are.
> Apparently children are oppressed by their parents
A discussion can be had without words such as "oppressed".
Smartphones/tablets are now being used as pacifiers for older children, you give them a brainless game to play in a cafe or a restaurant so they shut up and you can stop paying attention to them so you can play with your smartphone at peace.
