Why Is Gambling Illegal?

Gambling being illegal in the United States is ridiculous. We always hear people talk about how great it is to live in a free country, but we can't gamble? I believe people should be free to do as they wish with their money. If a person wants to put their life savings on the outcome of a horse race, they should be free to do so. Being told what we can and cannot do with our money is screwed up. In my case, I love playing poker, but, I can't play it online for money because of certain laws that prohibit it.

Gambling is a fun thing to do, it adds some excitement to life, so what if people can become addicted to it. Some people spend all their money collecting dolls (sorry "action figures"), and they do this because they are addicted to it. Just about any behavior can become addicting, and many can cause a person to lose a lot of money doing it. Hell, look at the stock market, that is the biggest casino in the world, people have lost a lot of money investing in it. Life is a gamble, nothing is certain, there is always risk involved. Risk and uncertainty make life interesting. If life was a certain, predictable thing, then it would be boring and not worth living.

When a person opens a business, they are taking a gamble with money, in order to make a profit, somebody needs to get screwed. The free market system is built around people screwing other people, typically for a relatively small amount of money, and when done enough, a person can make a living off it. In this country there are two types of people:

Fuckers: people that fuck other people out of their money.
Fucked: people that get fucked out of their money.


For example, fast food is much more destructive to society than gambling is. A person that eats greasy food on a regular basis is gambling with their lives (and the money spent on a wardrobe that they may soon not be able to fit into). Why is it that in our society money is worth more than a life? It is a fact that our unhealthy eating habits have caused us to become overweight as a society over the past few years, our arteries are getting clogged up and people are dying of  hearth failure. It is perfectly legal to sell grease soaked food that is responsible for a lot of death, but WE CAN'T GAMBLE BECAUSE THAT IS BAD. This country has a very strange set of priorities. Addicting unhealthy food that kills is perfectly fine, addicting ways to spend money THAT IS IMMORAL AND MUST BE BANNED !!!.

Gambling is everywhere, all things that are uncertain in life are a gamble, should we make life illegal? In this country we can join the military and learn how to kill people, and perhaps get a chance to do it, but we can't place a bet on the outcome of some random event?

Indian reservations are making bank off gambling being illegal. Gambling being illegal doesn't stop it, it just makes it slightly more inconvenient. The United States government needs to stop being a wet blanket.