1) You believe casinos should be illegal due to societal harm caused.
Here’s an important factor: if you really believe this, you’ll probably do a bad job running a casino. You’ll probably be more successful if you try to run something else.
It sounds like the poster would be taking an active role in managing/operating the project, so this makes sense. But would your answer be the same if he were being approached as a passive investor?
Here’s an important factor: if you really believe this, you’ll probably do a bad job running a casino. You’ll probably be more successful if you try to run something else.
One might naively think that this isn’t relevant to an ‘EA’ perspective, but I think it’s a pretty straightforward application of an EA principle that the ends don’t justify the means (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/K9ZaZXDnL3SEmYZqB/ends-don-t-justify-means-among-humans).
It sounds like the poster would be taking an active role in managing/operating the project, so this makes sense. But would your answer be the same if he were being approached as a passive investor?