Those who play lotteries, by the very fact that they play, demonstrate the irrationality and lack of financial understanding that in many cases would ruin them were they so 'lucky' as to win. And yet people persist in the illusion that everything would be fine if a huge sum of money were suddenly dumped on their heads: money that they do not deserve and have done nothing to earn; money that has been taken from their fellow rubes on false pretenses by an illegitimate state apparatus the net effect of which is harmful.
Primum non nocere: first do no harm. That ought to be, but is not, the first principle of government.
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