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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hijinks" data-source="post: 2368844" data-attributes="member: 31094">I just don't see scratch-off tickets as that big of a deal.  I think that gambling, along with any other activity that, if abused, could cause a lot of trouble for a person (such as smoking, drinking, etc), is something that parents should be discussing with their children.  My parents never told me about gambling, but I've never felt that need to go blow all of my money on a big tip, or spend all night at the blackjack table, or what have you.  I know some people are more addictive personalities than I am - I'm not addicted to anything, other than online gaming, really - but to be honest, I've never understood why some people will lose everything they've ever had to gamble.  Bottom line is, if parents make sure their children know the dangers of gambling, then I have no problem whatsoever with scratch off tickets with Star Wars on them. Besides, there *are* grown-up Star Wars fans, and who's to say the tickets are aimed at children, anyway?  Not everything with a Star Wars logo is intended for just kids.   Technically, no.  But he does get frozen in carbonite for not paying Jabba back.  It's made quite clear in the films that he owes Jabba money, regardless of what he owes it for (I don't know personally if it was for gambling or if it was for some smuggling he did for Jabba, or whatever - I don't need a lesson in the history between the two characters, please <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />)  A child isn't going to pay any attention to why Jabba had Han frozen, but a child will recognize the fact that Han owes Jabba money, and gets in trouble because of it.  Ergo, it's bad to owe money <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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