Do you feel lucky? Do you? Almost everyone’s gambled at some point in his life, laying down money on everything from lottery tickets to Vegas poker tables. The thrill of chasing that elusive jackpot has turned gambling into a multi-billion-dollar industry, but there’s a personal risk that comes with every wager. With nearly 500 casinos currently open for business in the U.S. has legalized gambling gone too far?
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Gambling Brings Addiction
- From Coalition Against Legalized Gambling
By National Coalition Against Legalized Gambling - Your Home for Gambling Facts
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Many Things Bring Addiction - But ....
Yes, gambling can be addictive but so can alcohol and smoking to an even greater degree. Smoking actually kills – yet it is legal. By the way, how about those people who literally eat their way into their graves. Perhaps then we should make binge eating, excessive drinking and smoking illegal. Should we go back to the days of Prohibition? Obviously that was a failure which had tremendous unforeseen consequences. People should be in control of their own lives. It is true that there are people who have addictive personalities, but more of us do not. Should the many be made to suffer for the disorders of the few?
- redondo July 14, 2008 12:08AM
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Strawman
The question was "should gambling be legal?" not "should exploitative gambling be legal?"
Gambling should be regulated, not banned.
Furthermore, the stock market is a form of gambling that happens to be extremely addictive for some. But banning that would cause the economy to collapse, so... where do you stand on gambling, really?
- ElaineVigneault
September 1, 2008 10:12PM
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