Let’s face it guys countries ban things people want to do all the time. And they aggressively “try” to enforce these bans. If you are sitting in front of your PC at home its easy to say “They can never enforce something that people really want to do, the world’s too big. Some one will always step in to fill need”. It’s true people do find a way to get what they want. Its also true that over 1 million people are in Prison in the United States on drug charges.
Gambling like drugs is a vice, if you arent hurting others shouldnt you be free to do what you want in your own home? What do you think the Governments position is on this?
Obviously this is true and has been true through the ages. People always try to force their beliefs on others, religious, vice related, and everything else under the sun. Most all of the wars and turmoil in this world is due to this, and people haven’t learned in hundreds of years, they are not going to learn now.
However we have run into an additional factor here, to quote myself:
The issue has become a battlefield for free world trade versus local monopolies, and that is quite a powerful issue worldwide.
That is the real reason for all the ban attempts, in the states, in Europe and elsewhere. The “moral” grounds are just there to convince the masses to pull along. The politicians are operating on an entirely different level when they make their decisions – money.
In all the ban cases, a few monopolies stand to profit greatly (or avoid being pushed out of the scene by someone better) and that is what it’s all about.