This is the first question of today's homework and I will be talking about whether it is good or bad. Lotteries have been called a tax on the poor. Ultimately at only a dollar or two a ticket, anyone can play the lotteries. However, many people become addicted to buying tickets and they can cause family or marital problems. If you are in debt from playing lottery and as a result of it, it will cause worries to your families and if you borrow money from them, they will quarrel with you and as everyone knows, this will spoil the relationship between you and your family members. If you are married, it will be even worse because you have to face them everyday and a quarrel will inevitably break out between the both of you, and no sooner, a family will be broken because of your foolishness to gamble and get addicted in it. However, this is not the point of my post today. If you could control yourself, and treat it as a form of leisure, and not as a form of earning money, nothing will happen between your marriage, not to mention your family members. Why is it that some governments outlaw lottery, a form of gambling which involves the drawing of lots for a prize, while others endorse it to the extent of organizing a national lottery. The country that outlaws lottery does not want its citizen to experience a thrill and indulge in a fantasy of becoming rich. They will cause themselves to become bankrupt at the end of the day and I can see that they are very poor, and that is part of the reason for them not to allow its citizen to take part in the lottery, because of the word “fear”. They are afraid that they will fall into a heap of dept and cause failure to his name at the end of the day, and when they are seen walking on the streets, people will know that this is the person that has gone bankrupt as a result of gambling and they will look at him with strange expression and fingers will be seen pointing at him. The world will also know that the country has some gambling addicts and this is the point that I would like to raise here, that some countries outlaws lottery, because of the word “fear” and this is the word that is stopping them from allowing its citizen to gamble. And why, why do a lot of countries that organises a national lottery is not afraid of this reason? Why is it that countries from Africa, America, South America, Asia and the Australasia are allowed by their governments to buy the lottery. It is because the government allows them to buy lottery because he believes that they will not indulge in it and cause themselves to be labeled a bankrupt at the end of the day. He believes that the citizen of the countries have the self-control to control themselves from doing such a thing. He believes that the citizens treats it as a leisure and this is why the government allows the lottery even in Singapore. Thus, I ask my mother, “Mummy, what will you do if Daddy gets addicted in gambling and cause himself to become a bankrupt?” She said, “I believes that your father has the self-control to stop himself from getting addicted in gambling.” Thus, I can conclude that the countries that allows its citizen to take part in the lottery because of the word “trust”. It is trust that allows the countries to allow its citizen to take part in the lottery. Besides lottery is also a game about luck, it can make people become a millionaire from a poor person. As long as you don’t get addicted into it, you will not fall into a heap of dept. Reference: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2009/06/232m_lottery_winner_is_true_ra.html
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