Gambling
Gambling
Gambling, “Yes” or “No.” As far as the state of Texas was concerned, lottery gambling was considered braking the law up until the mid 1980s when the lottery was approved. I had always thought that it was ironic that the state of Texas decided that gambling was OK as long you gambled on the state controlled lottery. My question has always been “Why was lottery gambling illegal in the first place?” What was the point of making gambling against the law? Were you protecting us from losing, or being scammed out of our hard-earned money? I don’t have the answer for this question, and I am pretty sure no one else an answer that makes sense.
To gamble, or not to gamble, that is the question..
We can sit around and play the “What If” game all day long and look for signs of immoral behavior, then try to regulate it. My question has always been this: If I go to work and make money, whose business is it if I decide to gamble with my money? Who decides if gambling would be considered wasteful or immoral? Why would we want to give someone else the power to decide when we are wasting our money? Let me understand this, if I spend $1500 in a poker game and lose my money, am I breaking the law because I am wasting my money? What about the person who won my money? Did they also break the law? I have a brilliant idea! How about this! “Stay the hell out of my wallet, and let me decide what, where and how I want to spend my money. Why don’t we try that?
If you are going to control gambling:
Why not control other parts of our lives too? How about having a person at the store inspect our groceries to decide when we have had enough Twinkies, or chips? Seems to me that obesity is a bigger problem (No pun intended) than gambling. How about limiting people on the amount of money they can spend on toys, such as jet skies, bass boats, motorcycles, and Plasma TVs etc? Who is protecting us from wasting our money in these cases?
Some people think gambling is immoral.