Do you think gambling should be legalized?
☆Let’s Think
1.
What are the advantages and
disadvantages of legalizing gambling?
2.
Which partner would be the most
dangerous to you, a smoker, a drinker, or a gambler?
☆Hints for Points
1.
Gambling is addictive.
2.
It raises crime rates.
3.
It enriches antisocial groups.
4.
Tax revenue from cassinos not
so much help the city as reduces its budgets that should be used for other
purposes like healthcare, education, and welfare.
5.
Banning makes gambling go
underground.
☆Responses for Ideas
and Expressions
Ethical issues:
I respect individual freedom, but I cannot support legalization of
gambling because it causes serious ethical issues. Fundamentally, gambling is
ethically wrong because these so-called games of chance are for profits that
are designed to make visitors lose. Nevertheless, it does not choose customers.
Other than wealthy people who have a large amount of disposal income, ordinary
citizens can get involved in gambling and lose a fortune, which destroys lives
of addicted gamblers and their families. In addition to these tragedies, the
mindset for hitting-a-jackpot and becoming a tycoon without caring others will
deteriorate conventional lives based on diligent and conscientious daily labor,
and this will drive people into an insane state of mind. It is the hotbed of
get-rich-quick schemes and acceptance of neoliberal practices that make people worship
those who make money and dehumanize those who lost in competition. Those
inhumane comments made by neoliberalists show the emptiness and ruthlessness of
their mental life. In this way, gambling is potentially harmful to the humanity.
(166 words)
Economic problem
Legalization of gambling can weaken the economy of the society. In
general, antisocial groups like mafia and yakuza do gambling business. Thus,
legalization of gabling allows white-collar mafia to expand their illicit
businesses, and this will influence normal economic activities because bad
money drives out good money. In addition, gambling does not always increase tax
revenue. It often wrecks the economy of the cities, except for the traditional
gambling cities, such as Las Vegas and Macao. Newly-built gambling cities have
all failed. A plan called Osaka Integrated Resorts (Osaka IR), which was
launched after the legalization of some types of gambling in Japan in 2018, has
been causing concerns that its large cassino targeting the wealthy may cause a
huge deficit because it is hard to expect that it will attract enough visitors.
Underground gambling is bad enough, but government-owned cassinos will cause
more harm because tax money used to make up for the loss surpasses the revenue
from the cassino. Therefore, gambling is all harm, no good, and so we must keep
gambling illegal. (175 words)
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