The final question: to ban or not to ban online gambling?
February 20, 2007
Analyzing the global gambling context, we can’t deny anymore the fact that online gambling has become a mass phenomenon. People just love to gamble, we can’t change that. This is the only thing that gambling businesses will take into consideration, and not the laws or the fact that online gambling industry has a “bad reputation”.
So, by banning online gambling are we going to make things better or worse? Rhetorical, because it’s logic that if we can’t stop it, we’ll better legalize it.
What is reverse psychology? It is basically making virtue out of necessity. For instance, let’s look at the soft drugs (like marijuana) market. Where they are legal (Netherlands) people rarely use them and where they are unlawful (for example, USA) there is an entire underground illegal market whit many drugs addicts. This is purely human nature. So, banning lawful and regulated online gambling in any form is just like opening another way for organized crime to obtain consumers money.
If you want to prevent a youngster from seeing an R marked film, you don’t interdict the film do you? No, that would be ridiculous. You just certify that people are doing there their best to ensure that no one under 18 will see the movie. But, by prohibiting the movie, the probability that someone will obtain an illicit copy and show it to every child in the city, will increase. Again, it is simply reverse psychology.
So if you want to prevent a youngster from gambling online then all the online casinos should be regulated and supervised, not forbidden.
On the other hand, if you suppose that terrorist groups are abusing an unregulated and unmonitored commerce like the online gambling industry, then by legalizing it you discover where the money is going and ensure it is not going to support international terrorist assaults. It is obvious that by banning this type of industry all that we do is implementing more unlawful activities.
Therefore, if the government legalizes the online gambling industry in the USA things will improve. In addition, the regulated gambling market will bring approximately 1.2 billion dollars in taxes to the American government. This catch could be used in education, police and general health care for all Americans.
It is in our nature to desire forbidden things, so the more laws we implement in order to stop people from doing something the grater the chances are for those individuals to actually do it.
In a regulated online casino players will have information on how to get support if you have a gambling problem. In a banned casino they will not have access to this type of support. Illegal casinos want you to keep on gambling until you have nothing left.
We have to solve the problem beginning from its roots, meaning that we have to inform the people on the dangers of gambling both online and in a casino. It’s simply wrong to ban an industry that employs thousands of people in states all over the world. No one achieves anything from just ordering people that they can’t do something that they intend to do anyway.
This is the pure reality and the government should know this better than we do and stop making the same mistakes all over again.
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