Casino Revisited

Just read on our esteemed Straits Times forum pages about people lobbying against having casino.

Mainly 2 groups of people : (1) Religious , (2) Conservatives Pro Family

I can, kind of, understand the conservative part. That people will get addicted to gambling, and tend to beat wife and children more often, etc, etc. Like drug addicts, who can't control themselves. So let's not give them an additional avenue of addiction.

The religious groups (usually Christian and Catholic) will hijack many issues. This is is not spared. That gambling is sinful, thus Singapore should not do it.

Before there is a chance to see whether :

(1) Is the casino really going to help our economy ?
(2) Are there going to be more family problems ?
(3) Can the government make good use of the Casino without the much problems ?

We have the voices of "idealism" lobbying against it.

I mean, this issue is not as simple as "allowing murder to be legal". There are cases of Casino being successful, and there are cases where they failed.

So why impose your religious views onto others ? If you are that great, and gambling is a sin, just tell your followers not to go ! Why not start lobbying against 4D and Toto !

Heck, why don't our Islamic friends lobby against having Alcohol served in Singapore. Afterall, it is proven to have so much problems. And Islam prohibits, so please, start lobbying about the bad things of Wine and Alcohol and ban them from Singapore. Help the rest of the non-Islamic people.

Sorry you have to read all these hateful messages. Not a good day in the office. Getting more sick of some people. I don't know why I can't just look the otherway and pretend I don't know anything about it.

I mean, it is like pretending not to notice that there is a screaming child in the National Library. You can chosee not to do anything to the kid, but the ear-piercing scream still physically damages your ear-drums and it still irritates you.