I support banning it. And it’s advertising, too. Maybe impose some form of daily limit on in-person gambling as well.
The advertising is a massive one. If you were trying to recover from a gambling addiction, you wouldn’t be able to watch any sport on TV. Every advert, especially late at night, is about betting.
Trying to ban online gambling will just result in people switching to illegal gambling sites. At least the legal ones can be regulated
Why stop at online. The amount of pensioners and vulnerable people wasting their money on horses and fruit machines is pretty depressing.
On the one hand, I strongly believe in personal freedom (as long as you’re only harming yourself) and if people want to spend their money, that way it should be up to them. On the other hand, some people are vulnerable and need to be protected from themselves.
But they’re spending their kids’ inheritance. I can see the innocence in putting a few quid against your mates betting on horses. But capitalised rigged gambling is just immoral
This. When only one side of the bet can lose. It is not gambling but rigged capitalism.
When an industry manages to remove all the risk from investment. While offering little to the society they inhabit.
High taxation to help return their cost to society. Seems a bare minimum charge.
But they’re spending their kids’ inheritance
How incredibly entitled can you be?
It’s a predatory market. The only people who benefit are pigs who rig the games.
What about the gamers themselves? Don’t you think they may like the way they are choosing to spend their time and money in?
To be honest, yes they do
If the government provides a safety net for those with no money, it’s reasonable for them to ban leading causes of losing money, like gambling, to save money for those who are just unfortunate
If the government provides healthcare, it’s reasonable for them to ban leading causes of ill health, like smoking, to save capacity for those with less avoidable illnesses or injuries
How about extremely addicting activities that do nothing but increase the wealth of already wealthy people and drive people who need money into increasing (up to and including absurd) levels of debt isn’t a good thing for society. So get rid of it or put in sensible guardrails.
You can have gambling without money being at stake. It’s just as “fun” and doesn’t ruin anyone’s lives anymore than anything else that’s addicting.
