[moneyrunner]

I don’t want to get into a debate with you about the meaning of common words, but you have not defined arrogance.

What Bill Bennett has been doing for quite a while is to recall America to the virtues it once espoused. Honesty, keeping one’s word, etc. He has been up front about the fact that he gambled for large stakes. He never made a big deal of it because a lot of people should not gamble. If you are living close to the edge financially, you may lose the rent money and that would not be right.

If you are a multi-millionaire and can be entertained by playing high stakes video poker, it’s no sin, as long as you are not depriving your family of its necessities. It’s no different from other expensive hobbies like collecting cars or owning a yacht. In all of these examples, you know it’s going to cost you money.

Finally, he says he about broke even because he is accused, indirectly, of having lost $8 million. The actual article never states how much he won or lost, simply that he gambled with that amount of money over the years.

Clear?

[Cacophonous]

How would YOU define arrogance?

[kjam22]

If you are a multi-millionaire and can be entertained by playing high stakes video poker, it’s no sin, as long as you are not depriving your family of its necessities.

I agree that we shouldn't argue over the meaning of simple words.... like Sin. But I would tell you that there are a lot of people in this country that have a moral problem with someone spending a lot of their time and money in casino's. Gambling is not the only sin that Casino's specialize in. And Bennett's problem is that his market has been those same people.

Secondly... where did you ever read a definition of sin that describes it or limits it to "depriving your family of necessities"?????

[steve-b]

If you are a multi-millionaire and can be entertained by playing high stakes video poker, it’s no sin, as long as you are not depriving your family of its necessities. It’s no different from other expensive hobbies like collecting cars or owning a yacht. In all of these examples, you know it’s going to cost you money.

If Bennett and his defenders are willing to cut the same slack to a successful businessman who likes to light up a doobie over the weekend, or to a millionare playboy who likes to sleep with a different babe each week, then that's a valid argument.

They aren't, so it isn't.