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No, free citizens judging other free citizens (which is different from interfering with their activities) is not what got us the nanny state. Government judging and interfering in citizens' lives, and voters allowing that to continue, is what got us the nanny state. I don't buy the idea that we should become a "values-free" society, where no one expresses disapproval of what anyone else does, on the theory that we mustn't be "judgemental".

Here's a free tip that will make you a zillion dollars.

Take a good look at any scratch-off card on any government run lottery. Every sigle one of them is deceptive. They give the appearance of being random, but they obviously are not.

For example, one game is based on a blackjack game. If you beat the dealers score, you win the prize. You get four hands for a dollar, and you can win up to $10,000 dollars.

Of course, there is no way in the world this game can be random. If it were, 15 out of 16 cards would be winners on at least one line. The trick is that the state prints out a certain number of winners and distributes them at random. But nowhere on the card is this fact printed. Nowhere on the card or at the location of sale are odds of winning shown. The only indication of how likely it is that you might win are the games themselves, which appear to be easy winners.

So the state is engaging in a deceptive marketing practice, enticing people into gampling money by giving a false impression of the odds of winning. Furthermore, they will continue to sell a line of tickets even after all of the large prizes are already gone, but all the tickets still say "win up to $10,000", even when it is clearly impossible to do so.

So what we have here, boys and girls, is the Mother of all Class Action Lawsuits. The first lawyer who certifies a class and goes after a state for this is going to make more money than you can even imagine.