Is It Fair to Ban Gambling for Everyone Because of Addicted Gamblers?

[coin-investor]

So what do you think governments should do instead of banning gambling completely?

If a country depends a lot on its revenue coming from taxes, it will exhaust all means just for the gambling platforms to continue to operate; banning is its last resort; they will implement strict regulations on promotions and registrations, and will make sure that only legal casinos can operate within their jurisdictions.
No government will just kill its cash cow, especially if it's a third world country where funds is badly needed.

[rdluffy]

Banning is useless. Just like here in the PH, almost all, if not all, ISPs have blocked access to foreign online casinos, but gamblers who want to play there still find a way, and it's not even that hard.
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PH is in the Philippines, right?

In your country, to gamble online, do you need to register and provide all your information (documents) to the casino?
You are only prohibited from gambling in casinos from other countries that are not legalized?

[ultrloa]

If gambling is one of the major sources of income for a country, is banning it completely really the best solution just because some people are addicted?

I know gambling addiction is a serious problem, but sometimes governments go straight to the last option which is banning it totally, instead of trying other ways to reduce the addiction first. Because if they ban gambling, everyone gets affected, not only the addicted gamblers. Responsible gamblers, workers, businesses, and even government income will be affected too.

So what do you think governments should do instead of banning gambling completely?

If gambling addiction is rampant and gambling sites affects badly to lots of people in their country, then maybe the best option to do is to ban it. Because with that they can save lots of lives and could eliminate or lessen up the wide spread gambling addiction if they made proactive decisions.

Maybe the countries income will get affected with it, because as what you have said this is the major income source of their country, but if the cost of that acceptance is so destructive. Maybe best to find other ways to earn and just eliminate those give financial sufferings to their citizens.

[Satofan44]

So what do you think governments should do instead of banning gambling completely?

IMO gambling addiction should be taken personally. Banning gambling won't solve the problem because people can still access it by using VPN. When gov is banning gambling means their citizen will gamble illegally. So they can't even get tax from gambling site.

The best thing they can do is to allow gamble platform to keep operate but they also have to made gambling platform to comply with their rules. I think it's the best instead of ban gambling, then erase one of their tax source.

Okay then let's make drugs legal again and remove restrictions on alcohol and cigarettes, so if people or even children want to use them they should -- after all, it should be taken personally? What kind of stupid and useless argument is that? Things that are highly dangerous to most humans because they do not have the willpower to resist these things should be at the very least heavily restricted or even completely banned. We do these things for a good reason, gambling is not any different. Actually, it is more dangerous than alcohol, cigarettes and most drugs. The only reason why it is allowed in the way that it is is because there are too many addicts already and because of massive lobbying and generational wealth.

If gambling addiction is rampant and gambling sites affects badly to lots of people in their country, then maybe the best option to do is to ban it. Because with that they can save lots of lives and could eliminate or lessen up the wide spread gambling addiction if they made proactive decisions.

Maybe the countries income will get affected with it, because as what you have said this is the major income source of their country, but if the cost of that acceptance is so destructive. Maybe best to find other ways to earn and just eliminate those give financial sufferings to their citizens.

Most gambling websites do not care about addiction at all and do not implement any measures to reduce addiction, and if they do most often it is a very sloppy job.

[Bluedrem]

How many of those who gamble do you think can control themselves without addiction? I think 90% of gamblers are addicted gamblers. To be honest, our society does not look at gamblers in a good light, the main reason for this is that gamblers are mostly involved in negative activities. To collect gambling money, they are involved in various types of crimes, which creates chaos in the society, that is why no one likes addicted gamblers. In that case, if gambling is banned in the society or the state, it will be very bad for addicted gamblers, but controlled gamblers may be able to come out of it without any trouble.

[Bitcoin.com97]

Instead of banning gambling activities entirely,the addicted once should be banned ,anyone find in such habit should be handle adequately, because banning gambling in a country won't make any sense,aside the negative impact on addicted once, it's also has a positive side of it,at least those working for the Casion ,it's also a job , imagine those who always get drunk ,telling breweries to stop the supplies of achol drinks ,it won't make sense,instead anyone find in a such situations will be discipline properly.

Exactly, those who are addicted to the game are the ones that are tarnishing the image of gambling. They should be banned because they need help and this way can help them to overcome addiction, which they will fix themselves to the normal way they are before they start gambling. The game is meant to be enjoy and have fun with it and that is how its designed to be, not the other way around like the way some gamblers do, they go against the rules but with discipline and some punishment, so that even if they gamble, they will do it in the right way.

Besides, banning casino access for addicted gamblers is not the solution for addiction. To cure addictions, government or other institution must dig deeper. Casino is only one of instruments that causes gambling addiction. Addicted gambler can always gamble offline against other random person, and that process can never be monitored and stopped. It was said already many times that addicted gambler will always find a way to gamble.

No matter what,I still think there is always a way out ,those who gambling offline can easily be stopping,those agent can easily figured them out ,it's just for rules to be implemented, sometime ago we had a shop close to a physical casino,I can't tell you for free ,that owning a shop close to them ,I know how few addicted gamblers behave,most time they are at the shop before 7am waiting for them open ,one in bringing out generator , sometime I ask myself,if they don't have anything meaningful this morning to do , gambling is supposed to be for fun , whereas some choose to overdo it making it look like a terrible activities,I can't say they should banned it ,but I believe if work are put in place ,there is definitely going to be a way to handle the addicted gamblers.

[Dr.Osh]

If gambling is one of the major sources of income for a country, is banning it completely really the best solution just because some people are addicted?

I know gambling addiction is a serious problem, but sometimes governments go straight to the last option which is banning it totally, instead of trying other ways to reduce the addiction first. Because if they ban gambling, everyone gets affected, not only the addicted gamblers. Responsible gamblers, workers, businesses, and even government income will be affected too.

So what do you think governments should do instead of banning gambling completely?

If a country were intelligent, it would surely regret completely banning gambling if its citizens were addicted to it. In reality, several countries are predominantly Muslim, and gambling is prohibited under Islamic teachings. This is why countries prefer to ban it completely rather than consider it.

[Dunamisx]

Addicted gamblers will not be the major reason to band gambling, because addiction exists in almost every aspect of human life.

No one will be responsible to how you play or Gamble except you choose to go on the right path, responsible gambling is not what everyone can achieve except they are being disciplined with how they Gamble.

Even government cannot because of addicted gamblers ban gambling for any reason, I'm sure that in some country that gambling has been banned, they are taking such decision not because of addicted gamblers, but they are inability to regulate the entire sector and the mentality they have towards it has been an illicit activity.

[Dewi Aries]

So what do you think governments should do instead of banning gambling completely?

If a country depends a lot on its revenue coming from taxes, it will exhaust all means just for the gambling platforms to continue to operate; banning is its last resort; they will implement strict regulations on promotions and registrations, and will make sure that only legal casinos can operate within their jurisdictions.
No government will just kill its cash cow, especially if it's a third world country where funds is badly needed.

Your reasoning makes logical sense. Stopping or restricting gambling activities in a country that has always considered gambling as a major source of income for the country is a false assumption. It's impossible, and even if it did happen, the government would have to prepare other alternatives to keep the country's income flowing. So, I think the concern about the impact of addiction is something they won't take too seriously because they have certainly thought about this possibility, especially its impact, from the start.

[Findingnemo]

I can't imagine a government is doing such unless the whole country is doomed?

No, they won't do that and it is not fair to do that because the percentage of addicted players might be 10% on the extreme, while others manage with slight to no issues at all then how it is even fair to punish the 90% of them.

And the last thing, banning doesn't stop the gambling it just opens the doorway for unregulated gambling operations that is even worse.

[ColdLava40]

Addicted gamblers will not be the major reason to band gambling, because addiction exists in almost every aspect of human life.

No one will be responsible to how you play or Gamble except you choose to go on the right path, responsible gambling is not what everyone can achieve except they are being disciplined with how they Gamble.

Even government cannot because of addicted gamblers ban gambling for any reason, I'm sure that in some country that gambling has been banned, they are taking such decision not because of addicted gamblers, but they are inability to regulate the entire sector and the mentality they have towards it has been an illicit activity.

Agreeable. You could get addicted to sleeping, in life we are exposed to so many forms of addiction so gambling won't be the first.

Banning gambling because of addicted gamblers is like removing night because of addicted sleepers, you most definitely would affect other people. That's not the way forward.

A government who knows what they are doing should be able to figure out where the main problem is coming from. You won't be able to stop gambling addiction. You could only reduce its effect on the society.