Commercial Gambling is a Social Evil

Wyllow3

I guess the difference is the effect gambling has on ordinary and humble people as opposed to those who can afford to "lose".

*I don't think advertising gambling should be allowed. Period. cut off the life support system*

I agree.

I just don’t think gambling should be advertised at all and that online gambling should have more controls.

I don’t think gambling or events using animals are the same at all, I don’t think either should be banned, but much better regulated and safer.

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I hear North Korea is nice at this time of year.

Although there are two casinos there now (strictly for visitors - oh yeah?)
The casinos are designed purely for revenue extraction, allowing current Supreme Leader “Rocketman” Kim Jong Un, grandson of regime founder Kim Il Sung, to tap into international gambling demand whilst maintaining a hard internal ideological line.

Oh, and horse racing is allowed again because it brings in revenue. However, it is strictly for "the elite" - in an "egalitarian" society. 🤔

I don't know if any other GNs find this happening.

I browse the internet quite a bit but I am always very careful untick any boxes that allow third party access.

Nevertheless, I often get as many as twenty or so gambling notifications in my Junk file every day. They mainly offer free spins, whatever they are, as an inducement to join the sites. I should add that, apart from a bit of a flutter with 2p pieces in an arcade and the occasional raffle, I don't gamble.

What worries me is the fact that these sites appear to be totally unregulated and they must be tapping into other sites that have no relevance to betting and gambling. No doubt these sites are selling lists on.

It would be all too easy for me to click on one or more of these gambling sites for a 'free spin,' to get sucked in and end up on the slippery slope of gambling addiction.

Allira DH just brought home a couple of lottery tickets he won in a raffle.

That's double gambling that is!

I'm a gambler, I buy National Lottery entries, raffle tickets and have Premium Bonds.

Rosie51

Allira DH just brought home a couple of lottery tickets he won in a raffle.

That's double gambling that is!

I'm a gambler, I buy National Lottery entries, raffle tickets and have Premium Bonds.

😁
Not one number on the Euromillions!

Allira

You're not going to stop it by complaining on Gransnet.

Set up an online petition.

You are so right. I did wonder what motivated me to post it on Gransnet. Short answers on Gransnet please.

Cossy

Wyllow3

I guess the difference is the effect gambling has on ordinary and humble people as opposed to those who can afford to "lose".

*I don't think advertising gambling should be allowed. Period. cut off the life support system*

I agree.

I just don’t think gambling should be advertised at all and that online gambling should have more controls.

I don’t think gambling or events using animals are the same at all, I don’t think either should be banned, but much better regulated and safer.

No way, Cossy. This world works commercially and militarily. Maybe the Age of Aquarius is dawning and commerce and war is the birth agony.