Imagine you're standing at the top of a slippery slope wearing flip-flops made of banana skins. All it's going to take to send you skedaddling downwards into a nadir of destitute misery is the gentlest of nudges. It's a precariously disturbing mind image, but thanks to E-rated gambling games it's a hazard that children are exposed to right now.
Is it really ethical that a tiny child can legally buy and playTexas Hold 'em Poker (Nintendo DS), Vegas Stakes (Wii VC), Poker Smash (XBLA)or any one of the numerous gambling-based games being openly peddled to everyone? Should it really be so easy for early learners to be introduced to the rudiments of the psychologically addictive pursuits of casinos and other such iniquitous establishments? Surely not, but this perversion of morality is a reality. It's a mad world indeed. And that's a sure bet.
