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There's plenty of legal Ponzi and pyramid schemes out there right now. Amway and plenty of other multi-level marketing enterprises, for instance. As long as you're (sort of) honest about it, it isn't even fraudulent to run one.

"Magical remedies". I assume you mean alternative medicine. Does this mean you're going to ban various herbs, or what?

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I would be in favour of anyone selling homeopathic "remedies" being banned from calling themselves a health professional.

You base your argument on authority. If an actual health professional sells homeopathic remedies, then according to your argument, they are allowed to.

A product should be legal, if it really does what is it advertised to do. How is this validated? That is up to the lawmakers, as long as someone handles it, unlike now.

I don't think this relates back to the topic at hand, though. Disqualifying these games as "games" probably wouldn't have much if any impact.

It was in response to the parent question about what to do about alternative remedies.

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