Well, my friend and I sparked off an email debate on whether Singapore should allow casinos or not. His stand was that we shouldn't, it's not worth the economic benefits, and I'll only serve to promote social ills.
And of coz, being me, I supported the idea of having casinos in Singapore. I simply don't see why not? Essentially, I feel that gambling is just a form of entertainment. And just as Singapore would allow for sentosa and Escape theme park to be built. I don't see why casinos should be different. Afterall, it's not like we won't gamble if there weren't a casino.
Of coz, I do not support gambling in a fanatic way. Hoping to strike it rich through this, like what my dad always say, 'lucky more than smart' manner. It is very much impossible.. most people fail anyway, and I do not deem it even worth trying. But as far as I'm concerned, gambling is just for pleasure.
And it's not the least like drugs!! The thing about drugs is that, they are 'entertainment' ,yes, but are they good for health/have any benefits to human at all? no. drugs are not only purely for entertainment when misused, they also have a tonne of negative effects on people.
I think it'd make more sense for the people of singapore to teach our future generations that gambling is not the way to wealth then to ban it. I'm not coming from the 'good for economy' point of view, but rather, every year people choke on food and die,does it mean we should ban eating?
Singaporeans have been far too pampered, life should not be that you do things because you were told you can do it, but to have the ability to evaluate and think through whether it's worth doin and how much of it should be done. to the simpliest example, if you were given an unlimited amount of your favourite food. Should you stuff your face and eat till you vomit? or should you just have enough of it to make you satisfied? Now, the government is like the chef. He serves us only a small serving of the food each time, making it much easier for us to determine what is 'enough' and what a 'serving' should be like. but that is not good! the world is like a buffet. how much can we,individual humans, depend on some other individual human being?? we are essentially the same, but very different in every sense! I personally would not like to think my life is dependent on another person, and that my decisions are influenced by a large yet relatively unimportant(in this case) and non-personal group of people.
And as for Homos wise, I don't think all other religions than thais are against it. I believe buddhists hold a neutral point of view. Afterall Buddhism itself kindda thinks that everything boils down to nothing. but I don't really think this is a religious issue to start with. What ever it is,it's not as if it's a trend, or people decided that they wanted to be homos. it has been there for thousands of years, and as they weren't trying to be different and were born with their preferences, it's probably a natural thing. and i don't see the point of defying nature.not like human race will die out, i just view them as defects of god's creation. btw, I really don't quite believe in christianity. so I don't really care what they say. they are extreme towards 'people who are going to hell' and so I'll be extreme towards them too.
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