Why Online Poker is bad…..
October 26th, 2007Poker915.com’s Top 12 Reasons The Online Poker Ban Is Good For America
If you love poker, or simply believe in liberty, please e-mail this to your state and US representatives, and everyone you know!
We need to protect the children.
If the government bans it kids won’t do it. That is why kids don’t smoke, drink, use drugs, sneak into rated R movies, etc. If mom and dad fail in their parenting, a good, solid government ban will always fix the problem. It takes a whole community to raise a child, so why should parents be responsible for monitoring their own children?
Playing poker leads to drug use, pornography addiction, prostitution, and all manner of criminal activity.
Much in the same way that gambling one’s earnings by investing in the stock market leads to these same vices.
If I have an addiction problem, no one should be able to participate in any of the activities that I have a problem with.
That is why liquor stores, tobacco sales, caffeine, fatty foods, refined sugar, sexually explicit materials, and state lotteries are all illegal in the United States. Our constitution makes it clear that the rights of the many must be sacrificed in order to protect those who won’t take responsibility for their own problems. Further, compulsive gambling never existed before the online gaming boom. If addicts were not allowed internet access they would be better partners, fathers, and mothers because they would never find anything else to gamble on. Read the rest of this entry »