Ontario state-Internet gambling

[DurkaDurka]

I'm serious. If they go digital gambling of any kind the **** is going to hit the fan in ways ON has never dreamed possible.

Ontario ponders joining other provinces allowing online gambling - thestar.com

The Toronto Star has a good story on it, apparently online gambling is all the rage with various provinces it seems.

This kinda scares me, "The Atlantic Lottery Corp.’s website, in operation for six years, has five interactive games including Hold’em Poker. British Columbia offers online poker, and imposes a $10,000 a week limit on gamblers."

10 Grand weekly seems more then enough to bankrupt all sorts of irresponsible gamblers. I don't necessarily have a problem with online gambling per se, but I think the limit should be maybe 10% of that.

In the end, I don't gamble so it doesn't effect me much but I can this contributing to all sorts of misery.

 

[petros]

That articles is seriously tainted.

Look at who they are quoting "International Centre for Youth Gambling Problems and High Risk Behaviours."

Do any of the quotes from that agency speak the obvious circumstances or has it been written to make it sound like "Well kids are already at risk for blah blah blah. So why....?"

 

[pfezziwig]

Morally and intellectually bankrupt are the provincially leaders. the only way to dig themselves out of the hole is monopolizing gambling like the mafia used to, locking out the private sector and further stiffling entrpreneurs, who are the only true solutions to economic woes.

 

[SimonKelly]

Is gambling prohibited in Toronto?

 

[Nick Danger]

Sports betting, for some, is a drug of euphoria without which they do not see their life. Someone likes to travel, someone wants to test themselves in everything, someone likes to gamble, someone likes to set records. You can list it forever, but the question is the normality of these actions and whether it brings more benefit or harm to everyone around. So many people want to quickly and easily get money. The casino gives this chance, however slight https://casinosnotongamstop.online/review/royal-oak-casino/. If this chance is not a fraud and everything depends on luck, people should be given this opportunity.

Complicated topic. Is not one measure of a society's state of evolution in how it looks after its less fortunate ? But in the case of addiction, the victim is often unable to see the problem, and the thought of forcing help upon them crosses some pretty big moral boundaries. Similar moral implications arise out of government actually making potentially addicting activities like gambling more easily accessible just for the sake of making money.

 

[DaSleeper]

Another necro thread resurected!

 

[bob the dog]

Complicated topic. Is not one measure of a society's state of evolution in how it looks after its less fortunate ? But in the case of addiction, the victim is often unable to see the problem, and the thought of forcing help upon them crosses some pretty big moral boundaries. Similar moral implications arise out of government actually making potentially addicting activities like gambling more easily accessible just for the sake of making money.

If so, it could also be said that one measure of a society is in how it looks after its elite.

If only they could make money opposed to spending everything they bring in on an inefficiant burecracy and benefit packages. Who is more addicted to the revenue? The gambler or the province?

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

Complicated topic. Is not one measure of a society's state of evolution in how it looks after its less fortunate ? But in the case of addiction, the victim is often unable to see the problem, and the thought of forcing help upon them crosses some pretty big moral boundaries. Similar moral implications arise out of government actually making potentially addicting activities like gambling more easily accessible just for the sake of making money.

I would hope Premier Daltan McGuinty keeps that in mind when he makes his decision.

 

[petros]

I don't go gambling in 3rd world countries such as Ontario.

 

[DaSleeper]

I don't go gambling in 3rd world countries such as Ontario.