The Great Casino Debate

After reading the article, I feel that I would like to disagree with the author about Singapore not setting up a casino. Indeed, what the author fears is also what the majority of the Singaporeans are worrying about, about people getting addicted to gambling, about families broken up because of gambling, about people neglecting their work for gambling, so on and so forth. But in the end it still brings us to one problem, the issue of self-control.
Firstly, the author compares the setting up of a casino as killing the "goose" for the "golden eggs", however, I feel that the casino is never a "once-gain" issue. Once the management work of the casino is stable, continuous amount of cash will flow into Sinagapore. It does bring continuous help to Singapore's economy, the only problem is whether or not Sinagporeans would be tempted to go to the casino for the quick cash which would usually result in loss of money. This brings us to the issue of self-control. If the Singaporeans have self-control in them, they would know when is the time for them to stop gambling and go back to their daily lives. Only those who are unable to control themselves will be hooked on to the casino and continue destroying their lives - and this is why the government made sure that only those people who have the amount of money could go into the casino. Why? Because the government feels that these people had plenty of money just due to the fact that they can control themselves and thus did not spend all of them the moment they got their hands on the money.
Also, I feel that casino by itself is not a bane to Singapore society. Take for example Las Vegas, why would people want to go there? It is exactly because Las Vegas is the "heart" of casinos and thus people are willing to spend the money to go there, it is exactly the casinos that attracts the people. If there is a casino in Singapore, at least more people in the Asia region would visit Singapore's casino, this would greatly help Singapore's economy. Also, the setting up of the casino also provides job for many more people - nobody can deny this fact. Furthermore, it gives Singapore more experience in casinos as it is the first time that Singapore set up a casino.
Hence, I feel that the setting up of a casino in Singapore is not as much as a bane to its society as other people would think.