His point is we&#x27;re picking and choosing when and how to interfere with peoples&#x27; destructive behaviors.<p>My mother is allowed to be a drunk, nobody cares how it impacted my childhood. I&#x27;m allowed to have trust issues, though it impacts my relationships. I&#x27;m allowed to overeat though it might impact my childrens&#x27; view of obesity, likelihood to be obese, and finances if they have to support me later. Etc etc.<p>We&#x27;ve chosen to not allow people to play poker online, to protect them from themselves, but it&#x27;s a rather arbitrary thing to choose, especially given all the other ways they can destroy their finances.<p>We can&#x27;t protect everyone from being exploited in every manner, and it could probably be argued that we ought to quit trying in a lot of cases. IMO it&#x27;s generally not our place to protect people from themselves.