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Created page with "People bet on everything: Presluc, Redrym, the athletic festivals, animal races, prize fights, and which of two ships will make port first. Nowhere thinks it admirable. Most cities think about it roughly as ours do: a man who bets is ordinary and a man who cannot stop is a man with a problem his family is carrying. It is not a crime in Shining Reach, Forgegate, Stormharbor, or Eldershore, and nobody proposes making it one, because the philosophy will not have a..."

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People bet on everything: [[Presluc]], [[Redrym]], the athletic festivals, animal races, prize fights, and which of two ships will make port first.

Nowhere thinks it admirable. Most cities think about it roughly as ours do: a man who bets is ordinary and a man who cannot stop is a man with a problem his family is carrying. It is not a crime in Shining Reach, Forgegate, Stormharbor, or Eldershore, and nobody proposes making it one, because the philosophy will not have a city deciding what a person may do with his own money. [[Clearhold]] bans it outright, which surprises nobody — a city whose whole order rests on measured merit does not care for a thing that hands money to whoever was lucky — and the Registrars enforce the ban exactly. It happens anyway, quietly, and a Clearhold official caught at it loses his standing rather than his money. [[The Iron Coves]] run on it: every tavern has a game, every game has a house, and a Coves captain will bet on anything at all if the odds amuse him.

What draws real judgment everywhere is a man who gambles what his household needs. That is not a vice in the world's eyes; it is a failure of the Family aspect, and a man who wagers himself into insolvency has walked to the end of the debt arithmetic on purpose. See [[Becoming a Slave#Debt]].

== See also ==

* [[Leisure and Games]] · [[Vice and Crime#What is a crime]] · [[Sport]]

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