Moral Problem In Gambling
Sorry for bothering so much, and thanks for help. If you apply this principle on the above mentioned three examples, how would you apply?
Examples of betting on horse race and lottery are gambling by nature, which means that majority of people would be betting on mere chance to earn money of others without any moral basis to earn that money. It is true some exceptions can be found where a person can accurately predict the winning horse or lottery through use of well thought-after algorithms, but at the same time, one is doing it to earn money of others over which no moral right exists. Also, exceptions like this cannot overrule the general priciple and primary categorization of these activities as gambling. It is the somewhat same as saying since small amount of alcohol doesn’t intoxicate me and intoxication is the real reason for prohibition, so it shoud not be forbidden in same amount. When we all know that absolute prohibition means prohibited irrespective of the quantity being consumed ( reason is indeed intoxication, but because of that reason, alcohol has been prohibited in absolute sense and now this absolute prohibition rules over the reason for prohibition. Same goes for any form of gambling ).