VoodooDreams: Voodoodreams refuses to pay out to minors. (Page 9)

Bones wrote on 07/14/2020 at 23:54

*yours truly! I'm glad you realize that. Because pedagogy now hardly argues about parenting style. The "laissez fair" style is outdated. You obviously have little idea about young people or education, but on the other hand you obviously have not understood what I meant.


Involving the youth welfare office and the judiciary would be the optimal solution in a system where you have to verify yourself before you start playing. Personally, I do not think that a Maltese casino has an educational mandate towards a young person. A casino and a teenager have nothing to do with each other. If a young person (again, in the hypothetical perfect system) demonstrates enough criminal energy to gamble anyway, then of course an authority outside the parental home should immediately intervene to clarify where this gambling instinct comes from.

Adolescents are much more susceptible to gambling than adults. I don't want to go into detail about which biochemical processes in the body are responsible for this, it is enough to simply state the fact that some studies have come to this conclusion: Those who start gambling in their youth are much more likely to be unable to stop as adults. The addiction is stronger and in many cases almost impossible to overcome later in life. The relapse rate of people who have already started gambling at the age of 14 is enormous.

Personally, I think young people should be protected from gambling. Current case law doesn't go far enough in that regard. Some of the most popular streamers (and streamers are, after all, the stars of today's youth) shamelessly advertise gambling, there's one commercial after another on TV, and every other kebab store happily flashes money gambling machines. You can't just say that a 16-year-old is mature enough. He is not.

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Bones wrote on 07/14/2020 at 23:54

*yours truly! I'm glad you realize that. Because pedagogy now hardly argues about parenting style. The "laissez fair" style is outdated. You obviously have little idea about young people or education, but on the other hand you obviously have not understood what I meant.


Involving the youth welfare office and the judiciary would be the optimal solution in a system where you have to verify yourself before you start playing. Personally, I do not think that a Maltese casino has an educational mandate towards a young person. A casino and a teenager have nothing to do with each other. If a young person (again, in the hypothetical perfect system) demonstrates enough criminal energy to gamble anyway, then of course an authority outside the parental home should immediately intervene to clarify where this gambling instinct comes from.

Adolescents are much more susceptible to gambling than adults. I don't want to go into detail about which biochemical processes in the body are responsible for this, it is enough to simply state the fact that some studies have come to this conclusion: Those who start gambling in their youth are much more likely to be unable to stop as adults. The addiction is stronger and in many cases almost impossible to overcome later in life. The relapse rate of people who have already started gambling at the age of 14 is enormous.

Personally, I think young people should be protected from gambling. Current case law doesn't go far enough in that regard. Some of the most popular streamers (and streamers are, after all, the stars of today's youth) shamelessly advertise gambling, there's one commercial after another on TV, and every other kebab store happily flashes money gambling machines. You can't just say that a 16-year-old is mature enough. He is not.

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