Less than one-third of Americans (29%) believe gambling is morally wrong, a Pew Research survey indicates, while a whopping 50% don’t feel gambling is a moral issue at all.
Meanwhile, Americans across the country are suffering cascading financial and social harms from highly addictive online sports betting and unregulated prediction markets.
Something isn’t connecting here, so let’s review a couple of basics.
The morality of any gambling activity depends on its consequences. When gambling creates or perpetuates addiction; financially, emotionally or socially harms others; contributes to poor stewardship; or takes advantage of the poor and vulnerable, it’s immoral.
The immoral, harmful…