Gambling/Betting should be legalized in India! BETTING IN CRICKET - SHOULD IT BE MADE LEGAL?
Favor (Betting Should be Legalized)
• As we can see many big personalities are involved in cricket betting and unofficially it is a big business so it would be right to legalize it so government can earn some taxes which can be utilized for growth of our country.
• In terms of output and employment, in United Kingdom (Britain) gambling industry contributes in a big way to economy. For 2008, 3 billion pounds ($4.65 billion) gross value-added transactions occurred in gambling activities and it helped create 40,700 jobs.
• The total financial impact of betting industry in UK, is to equivalent of 6 billion pounds ($9.3 billion dollars) and it also supports over 100,000 jobs in UK economy.
• Gambling is not bad It depends on individuals and how gamblers 'gambles'. It is another game with linked economic benefits. It depends on person to person A person can gamble for everything he have and loose everything A sensible person always know his limits.
• Share markets are another gamble especially Indian share market. There is no certainty when share prices will go down. In India Share market is worst gamble as people get cheated every day there. Why it is legalized?
• Criminalizing betting does not stop it happening, In this year's IPL, for instance, as the TOI reported , an estimated Rs 5,000 crore has already been bet in India and E2 million (about Rs 13.5 crore) through bookmakers in the United kingdom. As in India Betting is banned criminals are involved in it.
• Do they not have a free will to decide what is good and what is bad. We should not assume that the weaker section does not know what to do with their money; in fact they are more prudent with their money than the rich. In fact the illegal betting market is putting them more at risk as they are being exposed to the criminals in the society.
Against
There are numbers of examples already present in India where people have lost their mind and gambled their all savings and did suicide. Considering such examples Government should not legalize the gambling in any way. In our country even lottery is banned in many states as people lost their lives while playing lottery then how we can allow gambling?• Cricket is most popular game in India. If betting will be legalized then even kids will start betting. There is a chance that whole nation will become gambler. People are crazy for cricket in our country. So that is another fact needs to keep in mind before legalize gambling.
• In Indian society, there is deep-rooted belief that 'gambling' is 'bad' and 'a social exult is certainly true, to some extent, that uncontrolled gambling or 'addiction' of gambling is a really bad habit.
• But what about the social consequences of gambling? Have we not all heard of stories of people — men, in most cases — gambling away a family's savings?
• Middle class is right now not involved in gambling and if it is legalized those will be impacted badly.
• Legalization of sports betting can never eliminate match fixing/spot fixing because human greed can never be controlled. However it can certainly deter such people i.e players, coaches and punters as chances of detection would be much higher.
• No. Let cricket be a gentlemen game. Betting will kill the spirit of sports and sportsmanship. More strict laws should be enacted to regulate cricket which is definitely under a cloud of honky dory dealings.(Point added by user.)
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