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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Should Gambling be Legal?
The Issue is Fundamental ...
All you really decide is this: Do you solely own your personal life or does someone else? Do you possess sole ownership of you? If you own your life, then you have the undeniable right to live by your own judgment - assuming you allow others the same respect. Whether or not you gamble will be your decision and your decision alone - assuming gambling is made available to you in a free and open marketplace. Sole ownership of your own life means both the right to your own successes and the right to your own failures. If you do NOT own your life, as easily as gambling can be denied you, it can be made compulsory under the same argument. When the state partially or wholly has ownership of you, the state possesses both the right and responsibility for your successes and failures. Personal and private property is gone. The state will decide what you may earn, what you must spend, what you must throw away, what you must keep.
Are you so eager to create, live in and be subject to a police state? Are you so eager to hand over ownership of you to others? Always assuming you have respect for and grant equal liberty to exercise individual rights to others, don't you have the right to earn and spend your money as you see fit? Do you believe in personal and private property rights or not?
If you argue for state ownership or, as it happens, dictatorship of the majority, i.e., the outlaw of or government regulation of monetary gaming, you'll quite likely get all that you've asked for ... and then some.
- Naumadd
September 7, 2008 3:24AM
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