Gambling 2
Gambling 2It is becoming a familiar scenario. A city or town in need of money
and jobs finds itself confronting an idea that promises to bring plenty of
both. This idea is bringing in legalized gambling to the community. “All of
a sudden it’s like bang, legalized gambling is the biggest economic
development force in almost every state in the country,” says Robert
Goodman, an urban planner fom the University of Massachusetts who
recently completed a two-year national study of the gambling industry.
This is one of the reasons why legalized gamgling doesn’t hurt the U.S.
economy; instead it improves the U.S. economy, because legalized
gambling gives entertainment to citizens, brings new job oppurtunities,
and lowers taxes; that is why the U.S. should legalize all gambling in all
states.
Gambling has been practiced by people throughout history.
Anthropologists, who have found evidence of games of chance among early
peoples, contend that the attitude of early humankind toward gambling
derived from their general attitude toward the environment. To these
people the world was a mysterious place controlled by supernatural beings
whose favor or disfavor was manifested through chance situations and the
outcome of such events as hunts, wars, and games of chance; instruments
of divination frequently included objects used in gambling.
As people gradually acquired knowledge of the nature of their
environment and interpreted it in terms of cause and effect, their attitude
toward gambling changed. Games of chance became pastimes, but the
ancient belief that a lucky gambler was favored by the gods persisted.
Among the upper classes of the peoples of antiquity, gambling was
frequently associated with extravagance and licentiousness. During the
Middle Ages, in times of trouble, rabbis in European Jewish communities
banned dice games and other games of chance. Gambling was also
proscribed by some Eastern religions, such as Confucianism, by the Koran
of Islam, and by the moral codes of many Protestant denominations.
Today gambling occurs in practically all nations and takes a great...
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