TrickyRicky
Senior Member
I personally do not understand the opposition to a casino. When I say this I am not endorsing one, nor am I suggesting that their are people who aren't negatively impacted by gambling. But I am saying that casinos are well within the bounds of reasonable human activities and as such a moritorium on them is, I feel, in 2012 a rather archaic notion. A casino moritorium is up there with prohibition or ban on sunday shopping. It's not that banning drinking or making people go to church and take a day off with their family aren't necessarily benefitial initiatives, it's that they long ago failed the congruency test with our social values. This issue, and our 2012 proponents, harkens back fondly to the Toronto of old where planners concerned themselves with discouraging young women from living alone and the moral outrages that this would certainly foster.