20 April 2010 - good is bad 2
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In another example, state lotteries are bad because they extract
more money from the people who can least afford it. So they must
be good, because they work as a slow-motion eugenics plan. With
natural selection acting against foolish risk-takers who end up
with, on balance, lower personal resources, the unfavorable
psychological traits will be bred out of the population in only
a few thousand generations.