Should Online Gambling Be Completely Legalized?

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

No (D/Socialist, muh morals AND nanny statist). Gambling should be heavily restricted, for all the reasons that CrabCake, Torie, DC Al Fine, and to an extent Marokai have outlined or alluded to. The fact that there are ostensibly socialist posters who are in support of this for reasons that I can only assume are, essentially, 'muh freedom' in whole or in part, who don't seem motivated by concern for the depredations with which gambling plagues poor people and poor communities on both individual and social levels, disturbs me. As Harold Wilson said, [leftism] is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Families plunged into penury and communities blighted by organized crime and money laundering. Oh yeah. Real fun.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

My problem is you could basically replace "gambling" with "marijuana" in those rants against it and it'd still sound like something someone might say.

Yes, someone might, but I don't really understand the point of such an observation.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

My problem is you could basically replace "gambling" with "marijuana" in those rants against it and it'd still sound like something someone might say.

Yes, someone might, but I don't really understand the point of such an observation.

Because banning marijuana is completely pointless, maybe?

'My problem is you could basically replace '[thing that one person thinks is deleterious]' with '[thing that another person thinks is deleterious]' in those rants against it and it'd still sound like something someone might say.' Yes, SOMEONE might.