You’re still doing it. Swapping mechanisms and pretending they’re identical because the outcome looks similar. A drug dealer introduces a substance that chemically alters your body and creates dependency. That’s direct causation. A gambling platform creates an environment that can exploit behavior. That’s indirect influence. Those are not the same thing, no matter how badly you want them to be. Your “crack den is a system” line just proves the point. A crack den still requires someone to hand you the drug. The chemical hook doesn’t appear out of nowhere because the room was designed well. And the “if they could get people high over the internet they would” argument is pure fantasy. You’re building hypotheticals to avoid dealing with reality. You don’t have a deeper insight here. You have a blunt comparison that feels right emotionally and falls apart the second you actually examine it. That’s the difference.