Recently, the casino in `World Resort Sentosa ` has been opened to the public. There was a large number of people anticipating its grand opening and on the day it opened, the response was overwhelming. Thousands gathered at the entrance of the casino and most of them waited for many hours before getting a turn. Some of them did not even get a chance to use the jackpots after waiting for several hours. The government has impose a rule that all Singapore citizens and permanent residents must pay a fee of a hundred dollars before entering the casino.
I think that opening the casino is a very good thing as it can help to boost Singapore's economies and people can just go there to gamble for their leisure, it can also attract tourists to Singapore. However, nothing is perfect, there is also some disadvantages. Singaporeans that are addicted to gambling will often go to the casino and gamble heavily, often ending up with a huge debt and in a miserable state, family members will most likely also suffer. If many Singaporeans start to go to the casino on a regular basis, in no time at all, they will too become addicted to gambling. This is the reason why the Singapore government imposed a rule that all Singapore citizens or permanent residents need to pay $100 in order to enter the casino, this is to protect the interest of fellow Singaporeans. This will discourage them from going to the casino too often as they will soon realise that it is a waste of money to go to the casino. There is also a rule that family members can appeal to the government to ban heavy gamblers from entering the casino.
However, the government do not impose this rule on foreigners which encourages them to gamble more often, their money will go into the casino owner's pocket and it will boost Singapore's economy. These money can be used to develop Singapore and construct new buildings, schools, etc to let Singapore become even more prosperous.
So, with all these measures taken, Singapore will become more prosperous while Singaporeans will not become heavily gamblers. So it is definitely a win-win situation.
However, this is just the opening of the casino, We will have to wait and see if these rules imposed are effective.
Dear Sean,
ReplyDeleteI'll like to disagree with you point when you say that the casinos are good AND bad. I would amend this to bad AND bad. Casinos result in gambling and addiction. Gambling and addiction, in turn, results in problems. Financial problems (losing all your money in gambling), social problems (family tensions) and time management problems (spending too much time at the casino gambling) are some of these problems. I'll be explaining how each of the problems are detrimental, and therefore why casinos are not 'good', but completely 'bad'.
Firstly, financial problems. Gambling wastes one's money as the chance of winning is almost zero percent. Even in the unlikely chance that one does strike the lottery, the sense of victory would be so compelling that one would start gambling and gamble all his money away again. Wasting money on this leisure, this feeling, this urge to win when it's impossible, is ridiculous. This is why gambling causes financial problems.
Gambling also causes social problems. It is so addictive that the gambler will never spend time with his family, and even use all the money he earns not to feed his family, but to gamble it away. This will cause family tensions, resulting in divorce, arguing, abuse, and fights.
Gambling is also extremely time consuming because of how addictive it is. Time will literally fly when one is in a casino, as he has so much fun gambling and participating in exciting games that are fun but will make one lose lots of money. The gamble finds that he cannot stop and spends too much time in the casino instead of using his time more productively.
This is why gambling causes too many problems and are thus detrimental to our society.