Cite case and precedent for your claims.

You're trying to be tricky and clever, but little of what you say is "truth".  Nice try.

Everyone saying that buying mining rigs and electricity to mine is the same as buying a lottery ticket to play the lotto, but it's totally and completely different.  When you buy a lottery ticket that money goes to the entity hosting the lottery and the only thing you can do with your purchase is play the lottery.  Carrying that line of thinking over to bitcoin mining is absurd and illogical, and barely even worth commenting on in its stupidity.

If someone has to tell you they're telling the truth, most likely they are not.