Showing posts with label addiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label addiction. Show all posts

Saturday, February 18, 2023

On Vice and the Prohibition Thereof

 I seldom agree with Prof. Blackman, but I envy him his office setup. (Seven monitors, it's incredible.  I tweeted a snarky comment about the relationship to high tuition rates, but his output is so voluminous that he might be producing seven times that of the average law professor.)


I might agree with his negative assessment of the SCOTUS decision on sports betting.

It seems to me humans are prone to being addicted, sometimes to good things, sometimes bad.  I'm not libertarian enough to say  everyone can choose her own addiction.  I'd rather see the government intervene, possibly with "nudges" rather than flat prohibitions.  Taxing vices like cigarettes and alcohol is good, taxing gambling