{"id":6891,"date":"2015-10-28T11:24:04","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T11:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/10\/28\/lottery-winnings-as-ill-gotten-gains\/"},"modified":"2015-10-28T11:24:04","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T11:24:04","slug":"lottery-winnings-as-ill-gotten-gains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/10\/28\/lottery-winnings-as-ill-gotten-gains\/","title":{"rendered":"Lottery Winnings as Ill-Gotten Gains?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">Suppose you win big in a state-sponsored lottery.&#0160; The money was extracted via false advertising from ignorant rubes and is being transferred by a chance mechanism to one who has done nothing to deserve it. Besides, you are complicit in the state-sponsorship of gambling, which is clearly wrong. &#0160;The state-sponsorship, not the gambling. &#0160;There is nothing wrong with gambling, any more than there is anything wrong with consuming alcoholic beverages. &#0160;But just as the state should not promote the consumption of alcohol or tobacco products, it should not promote gambling via lotteries. &#0160;If you don&#39;t see that instantly, then I pronounce you morally obtuse &#8212; or a liberal, which may come to the same thing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\"><em>Primum non nocere<\/em>. &#0160;A good maxim for states as well as sawbones. &#0160;&quot;First do no harm.&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">So a case can be made that lottery winnings are ill-gotten gains.<\/span>&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suppose you win big in a state-sponsored lottery.&#0160; The money was extracted via false advertising from ignorant rubes and is being transferred by a chance mechanism to one who has done nothing to deserve it. Besides, you are complicit in the state-sponsorship of gambling, which is clearly wrong. &#0160;The state-sponsorship, not the gambling. &#0160;There is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/10\/28\/lottery-winnings-as-ill-gotten-gains\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lottery Winnings as Ill-Gotten Gains?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[216,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-money-matters","category-social-and-political-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}