Gambling and casinos: in favor or against?

Question

I live in the Asian Las Vegas

And I'm against it.

I hate gambling and thanks to it, people are only worried with it and don't care about building other buildings for entertainment or leisure. Or even parks, there are less and less parks here now thanks to casinos.

What do you think?

Answer 1

If u hate it stay out of the casinos... no one is forcing you to go in them... common sense...

Answer 2

well now I'm against them, we're living in hard times, most of us is just making enough to get by now, so I don't understand how some of us can take what we can't afford and hope to get lucky off of it.

Answer 3

Gambling is good...

I know all the tricks. The casino loses money off of me, and ususally the night ends with me being forcibly removed.

Answer 4

it's freedom of choice. for bad things, even destructive things, if they are legal, we have to trust people to make good decisions about them. imagine if cigarrettes or alcohol was outlawed.

Answer 5

I think gambling helps to speed up natural darwinis by driving less inteligent people into poverty.

I myself, am very inteligent and understood the house advantage concept very well, it kept me from ever thining about playing in a casino period.  I eventually learned to count cards and now make money from playing in casinos, while foolish people bet their lives away.

I also support them for creating jobs that filter in money from the weathly.

Answer 6

You can always move.

How can a free person be against gambling?

Thats like being against throsing a frisbee, or farting in public.

I'm pro-choice no matter what. Except for eating peanut butter.

Answer 7

It's like any other activity - it needs to be thought through, and people need to show some personal responsibility.

Opening a new bar or pub might boost the local economy and revitalise a dead part of town - the council can tax them and plough the money into local projects. You might also attract deadbeats and drunks.

Some people might become alchoholics because they have no self control. The council might waste the tax income and not improve the neighbourhood.

The same arguments hold true for casinos, nightclubs, bars, airports, giant shopping malls - they all have pros and cons.

At the end of the day, you have to rely on your elected representatives to do the right thing for your community. If they fail, you kick them out and elect new ones.

You also have to rely on individuals to show some personal responsibility and to not ruin things for everyone else. There are always those who are anti-social or with addictive personalities - but that's not the fault of the casino/pub/airport/mall.

It's an interesting question and really does boil down to personal responsibility.

Answer 8

The problem you're upset about isn't gambling, it's bad government.

Any time a city/region/country allows one industry to dominate, it becomes destructive to local history and culture, brings about favoritism in local politics, and skews priorities away from all unrelated areas.

This is true of gambling in Macao (or Las Vegas,) it's true of manufacturing in Detroit, it was true years ago of banking in London, it's true of the entertainment industry in Los Angeles.

Whenever a single industry is allowed to become overly powerful in a region, the tendency to placate that industry for financial gains (even honest ones like economic boons and tax revenues) is corruptive.

Answer 9

Unfortunately, the casinos churn the economy there.  The city needs to balance that which they offer to citizens who live there to provide a good quality of life unrelated to the hotel/casinos.  On the upside, you at least don't have to pay state or city income taxes.  I certainly can understand what you are saying.  Keep voicing your opinion, as your opinion matters!

Answer 10

If you don't like gambling then you shouldn't live in Vegas, move to Utah.  Vegas is in the middle of the desert, it only exists because of gambling, you are in the wrong town considering your political views.