I hope people of good faith who work hard, play by the rules, and serve their communities find the undiluted moral language to call out legalized gambling for what it is. Legalized gambling manipulates and disrupts our brain function in a similar way to cigarettes, opioids and social media. It disconnects us from family, friends and colleagues and makes us alone in the crowd. Worse still, it degrades our human dignity and reduces us to our animal appetites. We become mice scurrying through a maze designed to promise, but ultimately deny, reward.