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One Too Many Tickets

Writing/Blogging Prompt: "What do you think of buying lottery tickets or the people who spend lots of money on them? How many tickets are too many? Do you buy lottery tickets?" by Emily for "30-Day Blogging Challenge ON HIATUS" .

Selling lottery ticket is an obscene way for a city, county, state, or nation to increase its revenue, because it encourages gambling. It encourages desperate people to spend hard earned cash on lottery tickets when the money is needed to buy food, shelter, or clothing for themselves and their family. It continues the myth of the big win, while focusing on only one aspect of life the material aspect. It implies that the only thing important in living a good and successful life is money and the things money can buy. It doesn't matter if the municipality uses the money entirely for its own purposes or gives a portion of the proceeds to charity, selling lottery tickets doesn't encourage good citizenship or spirituality in its inhabitants.

Buying one lottery ticket is too many because once a person buys a ticket then he or she is interested in seeing who wins. Once a person thinks that next time he or she will have a better chance of winning if two, three, four, five, etc. tickets are bought. Most people don't understand that no matter how many ticket they buy the odds of winning are stacked against them. Many people believe that the more tickets they buy the better their chances of winning and this isn't true.

No I don't buy lottery ticket, because I have better places to put my money then into the trashcan. I've always suspected that my chances of winning the lottery are the same whether or not I buy a ticket. If I'm going to waste my money on something then it won't be a lottery ticket.