• Stoneykins [any]@mander.xyz
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    8 months ago

    This is a silly distinction you are trying to make and it serves no purpose. And I don’t even agree it is a real distinction… The act of deciding to gamble doesn’t in any way mean the payoff or losses are anything but luck.

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      8 months ago

      You think the choice of deciding to play the lottery doesnt change your chances at winning it?

      If you truly think that you’re even more lost than I thought you were, not worth my time

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        8 months ago

        “than I thought you were”? I’m not the person you were talking to before.

        What is your actual point? Why do you think it is important for you to argue that “actually gambling isn’t pure luck”? And what, in your estimation, is “pure luck”?

        The way I see it people are talking about specific phenomenon, and how they have entirely luck based outcomes (ex like the lottery), and you are trying to increase the scope of the context of the discussion to, in this example, include people who do not participate in the lottery, to try and argue that phenomenon does not have entirely luck based outcomes. But you haven’t proven your point, you’ve been socially obtuse and attempted to derail the conversation from where it was because you have a bizarre point you want to make.