20 hours ago, AussieBob18 said:

4WDs/Trucks are not a problem. Irresponsible drivers are the problem.

Sorry to re-quote you Richard as most things you say are right, but not this time.

Laws exist because some people will do things that rest of us will not - especially on the roads.

Some prople cannot control their gambling habit, so we need to restrict their behaviours - because it is bad for all of us in the long run.  I dont think ban it - but far more controls are needed 

Agreed.  Smoking is bad for you but it takes several decades to kill you. Alcohol is bad for you but if you don't drive drunk or drive stupid, cirrhosis may take 20 or more years to get you. Most addictive drugs take months or years to finish you off but gambling can lose you your whole life in one night in any number of definitions of that.  And thousands do.  Or merely just a few weeks after the night you gambled borrowed money, when the heavies come to collect and you don't have it.  Some people are too addicted to gambling to take responsibility for themselves.  It is a very deadly habit if not controlled by the gambler or the authorities.  It destroys whole innocent families, not just the individual gambling addict.

Edited January 2, 20206 yr by The Deerhunter

Some things which are addictive in nature need to be banned plain and simple.  

20 hours ago, oldhippy said:

How does a ban on ONLINE gambling make thousands of jobs disappear?

the only thing I can figure is that a lot of these 'casinos' were just fronts and now that they're reason to exist are gone..

23 hours ago, Lacessit said:

I once did some consulting work for Aristocrat, a poker machine manufacturer. An engineer there explained to me the machines were set to a return of 15%, and any machine that did not return its retail cost ( about $30,000 at the time ) within the first 3 months would be junked as under-performing.

If that's what one gets with something one can see and feel, what do you think the online casinos are doing?

 

I stopped playing poker machines when they went electronic (mostly Aristocrat) about 50 years ago. With the old mechanical machines they could adjust the payout ratio with a bit of fiddling, but the electronic ones had three knobs to control the big/medium/low payouts. Would not like to think what they are like these days and the online ones would be worse.

On 1/2/2020 at 2:02 PM, steven100 said:

nothing to do with it as everyone knows that drugs are a no no ... and make people crazy,  certainly not the same as a drinker who can handle beer without going mad as drug addicts do. I hope your not a drug user.

 

 

Why people who know nothing talk ?

 

 

On 1/2/2020 at 2:24 PM, The Deerhunter said:

Some prople cannot control their gambling habit, so we need to restrict their behaviours

so at what point does personal responsibility for one's own actions come in to play or is no one actually responsible for doing wrong anymore ...   strange ..

6 hours ago, steven100 said:

so at what point does personal responsibility for one's own actions come in to play or is no one actually responsible for doing wrong anymore ...   strange ..

Was that meant t be  rhetorical question?  Surely not all that strange!   We all know that Thais DO NOT like taking responsibility for their actions.  Someone else is always to blame even if it was only because "they drove me to do it,"