Free Will's a Gamble - IR

The debate on whether Singapore should open a casino has been a hot topic nowadays. The main reason why people are talking about it so much is because people feel that the government is trying to improve Singapore's economy by sacrificing at least some of the Singaporean's way of life. On one hand, by building a casino in Singapore, Singapore's economy can improve, as more people will be attracted by Singapore's IR and sometimes especially the casino, and would want to stay in SIngapore longer. On the other hand, by building a casino in SIngapore, it will encourage Singaporeans to gamble as well, seeing the amount of people queuing up to buy 4D everyday, it is imaginable that they will do the same at the slot machines and the gambling tables.
To start off, I think that there's nothing wrong with setting up the IR in Singapore (which features a casino), since it is able to help Singapore in its economic growth. Based on a survey done around last year, the average number of days tourists would stay in Singapore is around 3 to 4 days. From the government's point of view, 3 to 4 days does not help much in Singapore's economy, since there's nothing much the tourist can spend his money on within that 3 to 4 days. (it's not as though he is going to buy a house or a car in Singapore anyway) With the IR, it is expected that tourists would stay a longer time in Singapore compared to before. (since the thought of throwing money to gain more money simply attracts people.) So the more money tourists throw in, whether its in the casino or the hotel he stays in, the money can help Singapore improve its economic growth.
The main reason why so many people are opposing the idea of the buildup of the IR is because they are afraid that Singaporeans themselves will be attracted to the IR and start gambling, leading a great variety of consequences in which the most simple one is losing all the money and turn to alternative sources for money, such as loan sharks or even stealing and robbery. This in turn affects both Singapore's image and social well-being, since nobody likes a country with thieves roaming about. As a matter of fact, nobody likes a country with casino(es) because they often link casino(es) with bad image and negative consequences.
However, instead of opposing the buildup of the IR like the rest of the people, I would like to question why people want to go to the casino is they know that they will be "losing all their money, causing their family to be harrassed by loan sharks, themselves having low morale and often ends in jail or in grave." Firstly, I would like to separate the types of people going to the casino into 3 types: 1) The optimistic ones: they go to the casino as a form of entertainment and are not bothered whether or not they win or lose money. 2) The lazy ones: they go to casino hoping to win some money because they are simply not bothered to get money through the right method which is basically their jobs, in the same way they hope to strike the 4D. Upon losing money they would often put in more money hoping to get back the money they lost. 3)The desperate ones: they are the ones that rush to the casino and praying to whichever gods they know, because if they still do not return the debts (either from the bank or from the loan sharks), the bank or the loan shark will confiscate/burn down their houses. This type of people are usually the "evolved" form of people from type 2, because of constant put-in-and-put-more-in treatment of money.
So now after analysing the 3 types of people, I would like to point out the the typical casino aims at the first type of people, the ones that come, lose money, and forget about the whole incident and carry on with their lives. Since the government cannot simply put a ban on people type 2 and 3 from stepping into the casino, obviously there are and will be some sneaking inside in order to achieve whatever they want to achieve. I feel that what the people is complaining about is that they are concerned about these types of people who will end up destroying their lives just because of the casino. HOWEVER, I MUST EMPHASIZE that its not the casino that destroyed the people's lives, its THE PEOPLE THEMSELVES that ruined their own lives. Nobody told you to go to the casino, but why did you still go there? Because of your own free will that destroyed yourselves, and now the people expect the government to restrict the people' own free will when ironically everywhere people are talking about freedom of speech and all those freedoms. Its just like if you want to commit suicide, the best the government can do is to save you when you are going to jump/cut and arrange psychologists to help you, but they CANNOT sit beside you everyday to prevent you from jumping/cutting. What people now lack is slef-control. If they know that they will lose control if they start gambling, then don't start at all. The casino is not just built for you to get money, as many people often thought, which result in the stupid consequences that they can always choose to avoid.
All in all, I do object to the idea of the setting up of the IR, because it really helps SIngapore's growing economy a lot. And for those people who think that they need the government to babysit them until they grow old, because they will lose control if the government won't, TOUGH LUCK. Face it, self-control is part of life. If you don't have it, too bad.