And yet substance abuse and gambling addictions are at an all time high level. Which kind of blow your theory apart.
You are not aware that there is no correlation between getting a job and curing your addiction? In fact the income will further exacerbate the problem and enable further abuse...
Ok. I don't think you do understand addiction and I think you couldn't be more wrong but that's life and that's your opinion and long may you be entitled to it.
No, they don't force you but an addict is a vulnerable person. That is a fact. Business has a duty of care to vulnerable people and bookies have been exploiting vulnerability for too long.
If you don't understand that, you don't understand addiction.
I somewhat agree but the point is betting shops have exploited human weakness and done so cynically and with no thought to the cost to society and services. They needled as much profit out of human misery and public cost as they could and ofr that alone the legislation is good. Even just to...