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I’ve never gambled in my life and I’ve never really understood the rationale behind it. My beautiful game of soccer is turning into a farce. It’s gambling that led to match fixing. It’s gambling that we probably coined the term “Referee Kayu” too
There was a local report on a finding that Singaporeans age who are betting are getting younger and younger. We’ve bets from horses, soccer and I believe the upcoming F1 will also join the bandwagon
Not helping is the fact we’re turning our Marina front into one big casino. Despite all the assurance by the gahmen to prevent the poor chap from getting into more debt with some kind of entry requirement, rest assure they’ll always find a way. Any resourceful gambler always do
I may be asserting my moral high grounds here, and I may be flaming many of my readers who does gamble. You might think you’re doing it on the side and socially, but the bottomline it is gambling. It can become an addiction
We all know how gambling addiction can make a person go totally out of control, No matter what spin you put into it, compulsive gamblers are flushing their future down the drain. And the fact a chunk of our nation GDP is partly derived from gambling, that just boggles me. We’re making a business about it and everyone is fine with it
Put it quite simply, you’re responsible for your own life. You decide for yourself what you want to do. Even if there are no casinos in Singapore or no race course in Singapore. Do you think they don’t know how to get out of Singapore for a punt?
Thats the point. When they do. Money flow out. So in using your morals and ethics in to decide policies, you are infact doing yourself more harm than good from an economic point of view. Now should policies by decided by individual standard of morals? I think not. The policy makers need to look at a situation from a interest of a nation.
The world has changed, you can’t quite simply prevent people from doing something if they want to. People are educated. People are well travelled. If they really want to do punt, banning it in Singapore is not going to stop them, infact what you’re doing is forcing them out for a punt and if so, can you say it is beneficial to the country’s economic? again i think not.
You have to learn to look at things from different angles, not just from the moral. Politics has nothing to do with moral. At the end of the day, if a person loves gambling and loves blowing up his own money, who are we to say he should not? Welcome to democracy. It’s your choice to make. You have a choice.
Well said from a capitalist point of view
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Sha, you have put up a very sensitive issue that have been on lots of peoples minds when it was first put to public. Views varies from all angles but like what Hatai said the decision to have the casino in Singapore was” not decided by individual standard of morals.. The policy makers need to look at a situation from a interest of a nation.”
That I can agree, and the nation have put much interest to it no doubt. But I sincerely hope that, we have contingency plan to curb the negative effect created by the ripples of the activities that might comes from there.
macuser, at the end of the day, that interest is pocketing selected few and their cronies.