Argumentative Essay: The Ethics Of Gambling
Gambling is filled with ethical problems, having an addiction to gambling could ruin a persons career more importantly life. On the other hand some people could control themselves and quit while they are ahead.
Paragraph 1: After reading several articles and chapters on gambling, I found a lot of people giving there opinions from both sides of the spectrum. The first article I read was an article from “LIBERTARIAN MONEY”. The titles pretty much self explanatory, this article was very liberal and argued how gambling could be ethical. Liberty (Authors Name) brought up several valid arguments that I thought where worth sharing. To start off, He mentioned that one of the big topics that come up while talking about how gambling is unethical is the whole “dog eat dog style of profiting.” Which is Basically saying that people that benefit will be benefitting from another persons loss. The way he broke down the argument was very efficient. Liberty said that
“The problem I find with this argument is that it could be considered for gambling ethics, business ethics, and just about everything else in the world. For example, one restaurant’s growth is usually at the expense of another local restaurant. Customers go to the one they prefer more often costing the other restaurant owners …show more content…
The promotion they had going on said that if you put $100 in your fan duel account the company would give you $60. So I did just that, I put the $100 thinking I would receive my $60 right away. This I never received, after reading there fine print I would've had to spend over $1000 within the app to get my $60. In the end I spent my $100 on setting the perfect line up which I never achieved and only got $5 out of fan duel. This kind of advertising I feel like is unethical for fan duel to do. My intentions where to use fan duels $60 and quit playing, but instead I ended up my $100 and lost it
Paragraph 1: After reading several articles and chapters on gambling, I found a lot of people giving there opinions from both sides of the spectrum. The first article I read was an article from “LIBERTARIAN MONEY”. The titles pretty much self explanatory, this article was very liberal and argued how gambling could be ethical. Liberty (Authors Name) brought up several valid arguments that I thought where worth sharing. To start off, He mentioned that one of the big topics that come up while talking about how gambling is unethical is the whole “dog eat dog style of profiting.” Which is Basically saying that people that benefit will be benefitting from another persons loss. The way he broke down the argument was very efficient. Liberty said that
“The problem I find with this argument is that it could be considered for gambling ethics, business ethics, and just about everything else in the world. For example, one restaurant’s growth is usually at the expense of another local restaurant. Customers go to the one they prefer more often costing the other restaurant owners …show more content…
The promotion they had going on said that if you put $100 in your fan duel account the company would give you $60. So I did just that, I put the $100 thinking I would receive my $60 right away. This I never received, after reading there fine print I would've had to spend over $1000 within the app to get my $60. In the end I spent my $100 on setting the perfect line up which I never achieved and only got $5 out of fan duel. This kind of advertising I feel like is unethical for fan duel to do. My intentions where to use fan duels $60 and quit playing, but instead I ended up my $100 and lost it