It is always necessary to move to more civilized and safe forms of gambling. Spontaneously organized cockfights with unregulated rules are really dangerous. I do not condone fraud in gambling, but the punishment is excessive and most importantly, why is this regulation not carried out by the government or an authorized state institution or a licensed private one? Where the state is powerless, arbitrariness always begins. And arbitrariness always leads to cases like the one described in the start post. Human life is priceless and it should not depend on chance. I think the government needs to take urgent measures and introduce gambling regulation. And cockfights should be banned.
They can't ban it just because of this one incident. That’s not the only cockfighting arena in the PH, there are many across different provinces. Unless the majority of these arenas are involved in the same issue, it won’t be banned. Cockfighting is part of Filipino culture, it’s deeply rooted, which is why it’s legal. What can we do? This is the Philippines. Whether we like it or not, this is sometimes how things are handled here. If not for the whistleblower, this case wouldn’t have progressed and would’ve remained unsolved.