MARBLES BLINDLY ROLLING
Sir-In your leading article of August 31 you refer, in general, to the effects, financial and otherwise, of the gambling habit. You leave untouched the more fundamental question, namely: is gambling right or wrong in ethical theory? May I suggest that the matter is worthy of discussion in your columns? Assuming that gambling may be defined as "the disposal of property by stake or wager by some method in which chance is the determining element," can it be said to be morally right? This will, of course, depend upon the ascertainment of some moral standard, If your standard is "reason," for example, gambling is clearly wrong, because the toss of a coin throws reason overboard. Perhaps some of your readers disagree with the definition or the standard, Rowntree and Lavers (English Life and Leisure) say that no Christian can be a gambler.
F. A.
DE LA MARE
(Eastbourne),
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 894, 21 September 1956, Page 5
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151MARBLES BLINDLY ROLLING New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 894, 21 September 1956, Page 5
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