i am stunned by what people type on the New Paper Blogs, with regards to the casino issue.
they say that having a casino is not going to be problem since we already have lee ways like 4D, TOTO, stock market and such. and he claimed that he knew 2 people who commited suicide because of their losses at the stock market.
oh ok, so we build the casino so that more people can jump off and die because more people get involved in gambling and cause themselves financial problems that they are inept to handle?
goodness.
singapore is too small to be a sin city. we do not even have a capital.
so the news said that the government predicts only 2.3% of the population will become or already are compulsive gamblers.
let's see. that's 92000 people, on a rough estimate that the population is about 4 million.
why, it's 92000. only 92000 people will cause the people around them to suffer and accumulate debts and face the risks of bankruptcy, not because they failed in businesses or stuff like that, but because of GAMBLING.
that is just so comforting. gee.
let's assume that half that number have families; say one spouse and a kid. then the number would be..
46000x2(people they affect) + 92000(since the gamblers themselves are affected)= 184000. that is for one year.
so the government thinks they are that good? i mean, aren't we suppose to be far-sighted people that put down the problem before it catches up with us? must we really have the 'minority' kill themselves, destroy their families even further (look how many happy homes we have now), have our newspapers filled with "BANKRUPTCY RATE INCREASED DRAMATICALLY", and have our lives be turned into the Las Vegas tv serial, practice unsafe sex like them and done on those famous leopard print shirts like loan sharks before we try to salvage the social situation of the country? if that many people can be affected, what will also become of the productiveness of the people? i lost a dad because of money problems; even then there wasn't a casino in singapore to tempt him and add on to his credit card woes. he incurred a few thousand here and there, now and then in macau already anyway. i just do not want to see more and more people ending up with a broken home like i did. i mean, not everybody is rich enough to support gambling craves, and certainly, not everybody is rich enough to pay off the debts that come when lady luck stops smiling on them at the roulette table. i'm not implying that everybody is going to become compulsive gamblers, but really, do we all think we are able to exercise that self-control and not go beyond limits we cannot push? after all, everything starts out as fun. let's have sex. everybody's doing it. it won't hurt a bit.
so is that it? do we really just go have sex, have fun and get high, keep doin it? after all, i'm young, i won't die. neither will i get pregnant. oh, and i won't get addicted to drugs either. young people just do not suffer that way. is that it? wait till we get into trouble before we cry and wait to die?
the same principle applies to gambling, don't you think?
sometimes, i think adults are even more blinded than we kids are. that's not good news.
184000: that's more than half of the number who died or went missing in the tsunami. i think the fate of these 184000 will be worse than death. i kinda see why my dad wanted to kill himself now. desperate people do stupid things, so why create all the opportunites for more people to become more desperate? it will somehow annihilate us in the long run.
i hope i didn't offend anyone. i hope it speaks to those who pushed for the casino to be built. <-- PLEASE OPEN YOUR EYES AND SEE THAT SINGAPORE IS NOT PLEASANTVILLE.
no casinos for singapore!!!
Jasmine the Great (duh) at 10:56 PM
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