prase comments on On Lottery Tickets - Less Wrong Discussion
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Why do you think that similar situations do not happen in real life? Real people have been killed for not paying their debts.
Sure, but they're extremely rare exceptions - the overwhelming majority of lottery players are not indebted to murderers (and a significant chunk of those who do, I suppose, still have much better options available e.g. run to the police accepting whatever prison sentence may await them).
EDIT: Rephrased the question in the preceding comment to make it clearer that I was thinking of ordinary lottery players.
Now I agree.