Is having a Casino in your town similar to a brothel?

xzanti · 21-01-2019 11:27am

Deleted User wrote: »

Legalise and regulate brothels and everybody benefits except the criminals. That should be a no-brainer. But follow Italy's example and ban all advertising by the gambling industry. It's not some sort of harmless, joke addiction. Far from it.

Completely agree. Brothels are never going to go away. Make it legal and safe for the women and tax it.

Gambling is a bigger scourge on people's lives imho.

ImARebel · 21-01-2019 11:31am

xzanti wrote: »

Gambling is a bigger scourge on people's lives imho.

totally agree

Grayson · 21-01-2019 11:35am

colm_mcm wrote: »

It’s not going to add anything positive to the town, apart from the few jobs that it creates. The negatives outweigh the positives and I can see why you wouldn’t want one in a small town.
I don’t think he was saying they were literally the same thing.

Gambling can be incredibly harmful. Thing is though, a casino is no worse than a bookies shop. I'd like to see them all go, but if one is allowed, so should the other.

freshpopcorn · 21-01-2019 12:37pm

Grayson wrote: »

Gambling can be incredibly harmful. Thing is though, a casino is no worse than a bookies shop. I'd like to see them all go, but if one is allowed, so should the other.

This is where I actually stand on the matter.
Even some of the business owners will happily sell countless lottery tickets to people who are clearly compulsive gamblers.

Mr. Incognito · 21-01-2019 12:40pm

Google Logical Fallacy

Deebles McBeebles · 21-01-2019 12:54pm

We have both in my town. Livin' it up here, I am.

Dravokivich · 21-01-2019 1:16pm

The Talking Bread wrote: »

Well most of what goes on in a brothel i illegal for starters

Only because it involves a number of providers.

Dravokivich · 21-01-2019 1:17pm

orourkeda1977 wrote: »

I've never been sucked off in a casino

It seems we're going to the wrong casinos!

21-01-2019 1:45pm

Gambling, sex, drugs are all 'vices' I suppose. So to some people a casino would be in the vice category the same as a brothel.

What many people seem to forget is that money is also a vice, and very often we hear about someone held in high regard who has been very successful financially, that has no 'bad habits'. Doesn't drink, smoke, gamble or chase women/men

the_syco · 21-01-2019 1:59pm

The objector is most likely doing so as it goes against their catholic ethos, without seeing the irony of his weekly sins.

freshpopcorn · 21-01-2019 2:02pm

the_syco wrote: »

The objector is most likely doing so as it goes against their catholic ethos, without seeing the irony of his weekly sins.

The main man behind it hates the church/religion! He's very left regarding issues.

sbsquarepants · 21-01-2019 2:28pm

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Is having a Casino in your town similar to a brothel?

Jaysus no, losing your bollox in a brothel is a whole order of magnitude worse than losing it in a casino.:D

GAA Beo · 21-01-2019 2:39pm

the_syco wrote: »

The objector is most likely doing so as it goes against their catholic ethos, without seeing the irony of his weekly sins.

Good man, get the anti Catholic jibe in before you know anything else. Fool.

GAA Beo · 21-01-2019 2:42pm

There are a few casinos and arcades in my town. I've not noticed any anti social behaviour regarding them. Would barely know they are there. I do agree with others though, there should be a limit on the number of bookies. But online gambling is the big problem at the moment, not the shops as much. Although the fruit machines and virtual racing should be banned IMO.

Samuel T. Cogley · 21-01-2019 2:43pm

Just shows how repressed we are tbh, I'd rather have a properly run, discrete brothel open up than some dodgy 'casino'.

yegorzima · 09-02-2019 5:40pm

No, it's not like that at all, these are different things. By the way I lived in another town a few months ago and there wasn't any casino so I could do nothing but play on drakemall and it seemed to me even better than common ones. I've won xbox last time when I bought <snip>. Everyone can try their luck there to win something useful

mvl · 09-02-2019 8:42pm

Think there is some sort of casino here - and it doesn't bother me.
- also, I would have no objection of having a legal brothel in same town - cause I hate hearing about what's going underground anyway (e.g. asylum seekers having to sell service to make money for their bosses, or apartments in family friendly neighborhoods being rented to prostitutes for business).
Just one condition ... hope these legal brothels would provide equal employment opportunities :pac:

yegorzima · 15-02-2019 7:45am

No, it's not like that at all, these are different things. By the way I lived in another town a few months ago and there wasn't any casino so I could do nothing but play on drakemall and it seemed to me even better than common ones. I've won xbox last time when I bought mystery box. Everyone can try their luck there to win something useful

evil_seed · 15-02-2019 9:56am

The Talking Bread wrote: »

Well most of what goes on in a brothel i illegal for starters

Are you saying sex is illegal? nothing illegal about it.
It's the transaction that's illegal... here.

Peregrinus · 15-02-2019 10:01am

evil_seed wrote: »

Are you saying sex is illegal? nothing illegal about it.
It's the transaction that's illegal... here.

Actually, the transaction is not illegal either. It's the brothelkeeping that's illegal.

Peregrinus · 15-02-2019 10:03am

Samuel T. Cogley wrote: »

Just shows how repressed we are tbh, I'd rather have a properly run, discrete brothel open up than some dodgy 'casino'.

This. There's plenty of evidence that having a casino in the community is much more destructive than having a brothel. Casinos indulge and foster addictive behaviour, and have an incentive to promote it for their own profit.

BrianBoru00 · 15-02-2019 10:27am

Peregrinus wrote: »

This. There's plenty of evidence that having a casino in the community is much more destructive than having a brothel. Casinos indulge and foster addictive behaviour, and have an incentive to promote it for their own profit.

Really, could you link to some?

professore · 15-02-2019 3:35pm

Peregrinus wrote: »

Actually, the transaction is not illegal either. It's the brothelkeeping that's illegal.

Transaction IS illegal for the BUYER due to a recent law ... there have been several threads on it.

Anyway you are guaranteed to get screwed out of your money in both establishments

DEFTLEFTHAND · 15-02-2019 3:41pm

We have a right dingy one in our town.

It serves as a sort of clubhouse for young gurriers and local criminals.

The average law abiding citizen wouldn't really be welcome.

orourkeda1977 · 15-02-2019 3:51pm

Johnnyhpipe wrote: »

Yes. I normally lose my bollocks in both of them

You lost your stones in a brothel?

Durrrrrrrrrrrty

freshpopcorn · 15-02-2019 3:56pm

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

We have a right dingy one in our town.

It serves as a sort of clubhouse for young gurriers and local criminals.

The average law abiding citizen wouldn't really be welcome.

Sounds good!

GAA Beo · 15-02-2019 4:27pm

2 in our town and another place with just slot machines. Not noticed much criminal behaviour associated with any of them, I've not played in either. I've played in some of the casinos in Dublin, Donegal and Kildare, you get a lot of lads in pissed after the pub/club. The sharks will be waiting for them! There was a murder in the local brothel few years back, probably more trouble associated with those. Not sure the new prostitution law helped that, has just driven it more underground.

freshpopcorn · 15-02-2019 4:30pm

Regarding this 26 people showed up for the protest when they were getting their licence but the casino company needed more documentation/time.
I think the guy was little disappointed with the turn out because he brought family.

GAA Beo · 15-02-2019 4:33pm

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Regarding this 26 people showed up for the protest when they were getting their licence but the casino company needed more documentation/time.
I think the guy was little disappointed with the turn out because he brought family.

What is their issue with it, anti-gambling ? Is it a slot machine place, card club or both?

The Tetrarch · 15-02-2019 4:37pm

Peregrinus wrote: »

This. There's plenty of evidence that having a casino in the community is much more destructive than having a brothel. Casinos indulge and foster addictive behaviour, and have an incentive to promote it for their own profit.

I play poker in a casino, and have since it opened in 2003.
I enjoy poker, horseracing, golf, soccer and have bet and participated in all those sports.
A casino is like any other business. They make a profit and a return on the capital invested. They do not set out to foster addiction. That is your misjudgement.
People enjoy leisure activities. They work hard and then take time off.

Is having a Casino in your town similar to a brothel?

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