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The Adventurer · 07-09-2007, 02:19 PM

I see many people want to win the lottery and are set on disovering ways to defeat chance. Let me point out something which seems not to be noticed.

A lottery is an event in which people collect money into a pool and use an unpredictable event to divide the money among themselves according to a prearranged scheme. Each person's chance to win a price is linearly related to the money s/he put in the pool.

If you invent a way through which you can influence the event (the draw) so that you win, then you are literally robbing all the other participants from their chance to win, which is the very reason that they (at least some, for example me) paid to participate. This is why doing so is in no way better than entering a someone's home and stealing his money. So is stealing really what you want to do?

07-09-2007, 02:19 PM	#1 (permalink)
The Adventurer Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 24	For those who want to win the lottery by other means than luck. I see many people want to win the lottery and are set on disovering ways to defeat chance. Let me point out something which seems not to be noticed. A lottery is an event in which people collect money into a pool and use an unpredictable event to divide the money among themselves according to a prearranged scheme. Each person's chance to win a price is linearly related to the money s/he put in the pool. If you invent a way through which you can influence the event (the draw) so that you win, then you are literally robbing all the other participants from their chance to win, which is the very reason that they (at least some, for example me) paid to participate. This is why doing so is in no way better than entering a someone's home and stealing his money. So is stealing really what you want to do?