(June 9, 2015 at 5:55 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: Ever stroll thru and watch the catatonic compulsive vacant stares of the pensioners?
It's like looking at death.
You must be looking at the wrong people. I remember my grandparents, and they were mentally sharp pretty much to the end. The three who made it to their eighties were more alive at 80 than quite a few people are ever. Also, they were physically in decent shape, very good for their age.
As for gambling, every time I have visited a casino (which has been only a few times, and never something I particularly wanted to do), the stares are generally vacant for those at the slot machines, no matter what the age of the idiots wasting their money. I find the experience of visiting a casino revolting on multiple levels.
One more thing: My grandparents never gambled, as far as I know.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
