A Gambling Addiciton
Sometimes a dose of truth is what a person needs. If you gamble for fun, you know the odds are against you. But if gambling is an addiction, you can hear the truth, know it is the truth and still ignore those facts. Addictions are about physiological responses, not intellectual exegesis. While I am not a gambler, I don’t have any moral objections to it, I’m just cheap. But I have a certain awed interest in the kind of people who will throw money away in the hope that they will somehow, despite the evidence of history and mathematical fact, strike it rich on the next bet. For example, some people believe that if you flip a coin and it comes up heads nine times in a row that you have a great chance of getting tails on the next flip, so they will continue to bet on the toss, even though they have continuously lost, are running out of money, and ought to be paying the gas bill. You can explain to them that since a coin only has two sides the odds of getting a head or