>It can look bad, but this is just an aspect of human behavior

Why "can look", "but", "just"?

I think GP is saying it's not the prediction market that's bad, but human nature itself. The prediction market just makes it more visible.

If we ignore that people are literally profiting from running the prediction market that happens to make it visible and giving incentive to uninvolved parties to have a STRONG OPINION about any type of event for the purpose of gambling, yeah, I guess that's a point.

Because it’s one of many events that violates our belief in our selves more than the nature of human society and man as a social animal based on studies of what we actually are.