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rooster wrote:“but make no bones about it, i promote casinos 100% for the money, the money, and nothing but the money.”
Pure poetry :hattip:
Lol! Of course we are all doing it for the money. The liquor store sells the liquor because they want to make money. The priest is holding regular mass for the money. Most everyone in this world is doing something for money. There is nothing wrong with that whatsoever.
I don’t know about:
“and nothing but the money”
Lots of reasons other than the money why I am doing this and not something else. The freedom and a whole slew of other things. I am sure all of you have other reasons why they chose this way to make money.
Everyone can set his/her own moral limits. There are some casinos some of you promote that I wouldn’t touch with a ten foot pole because I think they steal from players. It bothers me and I will not be a part of it.
Morals, like religion, are personal. We all have different ones, and varying amounts or none.
No one can tell me what to believe or how to apply it to my business.
It’s my business.
“The priest is holding regular mass for the money”
I think there is more to it with a priest! hehe
“No one can tell me what to believe or how to apply it to my business.”
That one line again is very good as I have found in this industry there is a lot of “noisy” people who seem to think everyone should play by their rules, when in truth its upto whoever is doing whatever, and what people do with their online business is of no concern to anyone else.
Moral is a good discussion topic but like Religion will lead us nowhere since anyone has his own thoughts and believes.
I just don’t like to ear that a gambling website is an imoral business since that “imoral” word, in the way it is applied here, is a very tricky one and can be applied to any business in general.
If we go that way, I could point my finger to anyone. I could say to a convenience store employee:
You sell tobacco, tobacco is very additive, it destroys life, you knew that when you last sold cigarettes to a client, you’re imoral, shame on you!
Morality is very tricky. I’ve seen some people in my country that goes to church all sundays, are very respected ones and have an absolutely intolerable behavior at home with woman and children. That’s imoral for me.
someone who is selling tobacco, bets, credit, food is not imoral, the way he does that is what matters. Some webmasters here do a great effort in order to promote casinos that they think will not create problems to players. That’s not imoral for me. I would like to extend this at least for more 50 pages of writing but I don’t want to be boring…
You could argue that its hypocitical for us webmasters to condemn what golden palace and these parents have done. gambling may be immoral to some, but to others its a voluntary passtime. the issue here is resposibility and how those parents could do that to their child.
the way i see it i am not going out of my way to force someone to gamble by coming through my website. people who find us will 99% of the time be searching for online casinos / poker anyway. so its voluntary and down to the persons will. but that name has been forced on that infant, so our line of work can in no way be compared to that, as we do not force people to gamble, and we are in our right so say that it is wrong is that is how we feel.
So Antonym are you a gaming webmaster? If so you find it a dirty business but continue to do so? Then why be in this business? I too believe that Golden Palace has stepped over the boundries but the online gaming business I believe is viable and has no moral negative issues, it is part of our society.
Brian
I don’t agree with what has happened. It comes down to a supply and demand thing. Remove the supply (parents willing to name their kids) or the demand (GP willing to pay for it) and the whole thing will hopefully disappear. Same point has been made about illegal drugs for years but all the more difficult than this example.
But based on the auction finishing two minutes after it started, are GP creating their own supply and demand? Personally I think these kinds of stunts are getting a bit tired and time for them to move on to something more refreshing. Sure it got attention and a laughs a few years back but now I question the ROI for them, particularly in light of these one.
which is basically that anyone who is promoting an industry which is itself arguably morally wrong, should not then go throwing stones at the behaviour of certain entities within that “morally wrong” industry. that is the irony of all ironies.
Why is the gambling industry morally wrong? It’s not like we’re promoting illegal drugs and we don’t target the underaged…….if you feel it’s morally wrong, how can you sleep at night knowing you make a living from a “morally wrong business”?
It’s disgusting for the mother AND the casino to do this, but *morally*, I could never allow it from either end.great arguments all around .. of course, no one can win or lose here :bigsmile:
yes islandmaan, i am a gambling webmaster also, but not exclusively … i’m into other lucrative affiliate areas as well
i have no problem sleeping at nights .. i see both sides of the coin with regard to the moral arguments for and against the whole premise of gambling, and for over 4 years i have settled on that ‘coin’ being wired to my account!
Hey Everyone,
The child being named for money is the issue here. The child is the one that will suffer from this in the future. It is a sad day when a parent will stoop so low for a buck. I to feel that GP has stepped over the line this time. As far as gambling being imoral, I disagree. The bible does not state, thy shall not gamble.Number one online casino GoldenPalace.com has done it again, getting another person to be a living, breathing advertisement for them. This time the billboard-person is a baby boy in Pennsylvania. His parents put an auction on ebay inviting a company to bid for the right to clothe the toddler in their logo and apparel for one month, and GP took them up on the offer. All it cost was $999.99.
I am willing to agree to some extend with Anonym – yes, we are in a dirty business – the simple fact that we make money when people lose money ought to tell you something; that we hope people lose more and more money so we could get more and more money…looking for the big whale…
But this is what this particular business is all about, and the fact that we have chosen it speaks for itself – we are not exactly saints… :woo-hoo:
I am pissed off that Golden Palace took it this far. As being bad for the business, opposed to being “morally correct”. They have always had the most stupid advertising stunts, which the average Joe will not remember – you can stop somebody on the street and ask them if they remember the name of the online casino which advertised on the pregnant woman’s belly – and they will simply shrug shoulders…And with their latest one, if somebody remembers tham, it will not be with good feelings.
I personally stopped advertising the GP the minute they started promising people to take them into space…
Advice to GP – guys, why dont you give away a Ferrary or something? A thing which will help us all, and give our industry a better name?
Believe me antonym, anything but a kid and I would be off my high horse in a minute.
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The corner store selling beer and cigarettes is considerablty more immoral than someone advertising casinos.
I for one pride myself in screening casinos and only promoting those that treat players well, as well as being there for my players when they run into difficulties.
I feel good about what I do, or I would not do it.
__________________I would add to it, but what?
wtf are these parents even thinking to begin with? That poor child! Does anyone know the contract on this? Anyone know if they had it stipulated that the GP name stays until a certain time, say 6 mons, after that the greedy parents can then re-name the child?
My thought is GP goes too far, I myself am sick of hearing what they are doing next, does anyone in this company have any morals? I don’t make crap off them so they can go as far as I am concerned.
