Quote from: Raflesia on April 10, 2025, 10:05:42 PM

Quote from: blomen on April 01, 2025, 07:50:14 PM

gambling is often seen as a harmful habit. my question to you is, in a completely free society, should someone be prevented from providing gambling services for the good of society?

Even though in the end gambling will always be considered to have a negative meaning because many gamblers are indeed destroyed only because of uncertain ambitions but on the other hand to make prevention such as prohibiting it is clearly difficult even though it can still be done.

Government regulation is still an important factor in this case because after all it depends on the regulation whether in the region or in the country gambling is still legal or not.
If in the end gambling is still considered legal no matter how hard many people reject it, it is still contradictory because gambling will still be considered one of the legal things. But it does not mean that we can also do or provide gambling even though it is legal because even though it is a business but with the current connotation then we also have to see the side whether in the end placing gambling in the area will be profitable or not, if most people reject it then it is likely that gambling enthusiasts will find it very difficult if forced to establish or provide gambling services in that place.

Prohibition was always the lazy shortcut. Prohibit what you don’t want to understand. But here’s the thing: wherever there’s uncertainty, there will always be gambling. Politics, stocks, crypto, love, startups, it’s all gambling, just with fancier PR. What we should be regulating isn’t gambling itself, but the integrity of experience. Is the game rigged? Is the player informed? Is the environment coercive?

If regulation only asks “legal or not?”, it misses the entire human equation. What about choice? What about access to help? What about the reason someone gambles in the first place? These aren’t side questions. They are the actual game. And pretending the answer lies in banning the behavior is like trying to kill a root by pruning the leaves.