Opinion by Charles Lane: How the Supreme Court turned America into a casino
and the way contemporary business profits from selling substances and experiences that flood it with pleasure-causing hormones. Against the ideal of consumer choice, Courtwright’s concept poses the reality of consumer addiction.because it supplies such a rush. Though integrity of sports was the 1992 law’s primary concern, gambling addiction was also a potential harm against which the measure, sponsored by former NBA star Sen. Bill Bradley , sought to protect.
Intentionally or not, it fostered a kind of worldly libertarianism, apt for a society in which gambling, including lotteries run by the states, was already pervasive, secular values were gaining ascendancy over religion-based morality, and legalization promised — as it did for marijuana — to mute the harms associated with black markets.
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