The Good and Bad of the Lottery
Having a competitiveness is good because people like challenges. People compete and complete till they win. People compete for sports jobs any many more.Gambling is a good way to compete.Lotteries are not an ethical and effective way to raise state revenues for education because most money from the lottery doesn’t go to its designated place ,minors play the lottery, and those who play the lottery are typically low income.
Those who play the lottery are typically low income. People who come from all incomes play the lottery ”Eighty two percent of lottery bets are made by just 20 percent of players- and this group is The majority of people that play the lottery are low income and receive no benefit from the lottery.People
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Although there are laws in place minors are still able to play the lottery. Stores are not regulating whether minors are old enough to play the lottery (Steinberg). Store owners disobey the law and illegally sell lottery tickets to minors. Teenagers can buy lottery tickets from most stores because the owners don’t …show more content…
Money from the lottery is alloted and given to it’s designated areas ( Steinberg). ’’Ecomoist have discovered that in most states little if any net increase in spending for earn marked purpose actually occurs’’ (Nelson). Even though people know the lottery benefits education they don’t spend any more money to help give to education. States spend general funds not on education because the lottery is supposed to make up for it (Nelson). The lottery claims they give money to education states give less money to education.“In most states the lottery only makes up 2% of the state education budgets (Worth). In most states not enough money goes to state education. The lottery does not help give very much money to education.
Although lotteries claim to be effective in helping raise state revenues for education, they are not. Minors are able to play the lotteries,the money doesn’t go where it should and it takes money from the poor making it unethical. Although there are laws against it minors play the lottery.
Most money from the lottery doesn’t go to its designated place. Those who play the lottery are typically low income. The lottery is not good because it takes money from the poor and not enough go to
In the short story “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, the reader is introduced to a utopian community who practice the tradition of a lottery every year. At first glance, it seems like a nice day and the kids are just collecting rocks while waiting for their parents to arrive. All of the citizens show some excitement over the upcoming the lottery. The text states,
In her first publication, “Against the Odds, and Against the Common Good”, Gloria Jiménez tries to convince the readers that the lottery business is urging people to gamble. The thesis is apparent in the first paragraph: “Still, when all is said and done about lotteries bringing a bit of excitement into the lives of many people and bringing a vast amount of money into the lives of a few, the states should not be in the business of urging people to gamble” (118). The author successfully presents valid arguments to support her opposition to state-run lotteries throughout the essay; whether the evidence will properly convince most readers the way she wants them to, is questionable. Although the valid arguments and evidence Jiménez provides is adequate for the essay, I believe only one argument really stands out to convince her readers the purpose of the essay.
Has the lottery helped education as promised? There has been evidence in the Bible and ancient Rome texts that lotteries can be traced all the way back to Europe in the 15th century (Willmann 1). After that the lotteries made their way across the Atlantic from England to the United States.The first American lottery was established in Puerto Rico in 1934. This was followed by the New Hampshire lottery in 1964.The entire history of the lottery includes the debate over whether or not it is ethical.Lotteries are not only unethical but also ineffective ways to raise state revenues for education.
The following two paragraphs are a summary of Gloria Jimenez's essay Against the Odds and Against the Common Good. States should neither allow nor encourage state-run lotteries. There are five major arguments that people use to defend lotteries. One is that most lotteries are run honestly, but if gambling is harmful to society it is irrelevant to argue if they are honest or not. The second is that lotteries create jobs, but there are only a small handful of jobs that would be eliminated if lotteries were put out of business. Another argument that would support keeping lotteries is that, other than gambling addicts, people freely choose to buy lottery tickets. This is true, however, there are misleading advertisements that may cause people to buy tickets under false pretenses.
“Why We Keep Playing the Lottery”, by freelance journalist Adam Piore takes a very in depth look as to what drives millions of Americans to continually play the lottery when their chances of winning are virtually non-existent. He believes that because the odds of winning the lottery are so small that Americans lose the ability to conceptualize how unlikely it is that they are going to win, and therefore the risk of playing has less to do with the outcome, and more to do with hope that they are feeling when they decide to play. It 's essentially, "a game where reason and logic are rendered obsolete, and hope and dreams are on sale." (Piore 700) He also states that many Americans would rather play the lottery thinking ,"boy, I could win $100 million" (705) as opposed to thinking about all of the money they could lose over time.
The Case of the state Lottery is in essence about whether or not its actions and existence can be ethically justified. The case made is the benefit of state funding projects, individual happiness ( from playing/winning) against the negative outcomes and influences the Lottery has on society and the individual. The utilitarian monster The lottery is an institution which is all about money. People play to win big, but often loose and the Lottery is always the winner because it always earns more money than it loses.
Winning the lottery is a dream most people have; it is magical thinking, believing that you, the ticket buyer will be the one defying all the odds. The only ones, from the hedonistic utilitarian standpoint whosehappiness will increase are those who actually win the lottery, a very small number from among all the players. The hedonistic utilitarian standpoint is not ethically recommendable because the lottery is only selling the dream of winning it while filling the state coffers with people’s hard earned money. (Brusseau, J. 2012)
In the Article “Lotteries Cheat, Corrupt the People” George Will presents the idea that lotteries are bad for the people, stating that legal gambling boost the productivity of illegal gambling, victimizing poor and minorities populations, and painful way of raising revenue. Will gives many reasons as to why he believes gambling is bad and backs his opinion with many facts on percentages of losers as well as quotes from Thomas Jefferson on the importance of hard work. Although Will presents many different facts I disagree with the general statement that “Lotteries Cheat, Corrupt the People” The reason a Lottery is good for the people starts with the mental aspect, some people can’t live without gambling much like those with a coffee addiction
The theme in “The Lottery” is violence and cruelty. Violence and cruelty is a major theme because there is a lot of violence and cruelty in the world. The Lottery has been read as addressing such issues as the public's fascination with salacious and scandalizing journalism, McCarthyism, and the complicity of the general public in the victimization of minority groups, epitomized by the Holocaust of World War II. The Holocaust was very cruel and violent cause other people didn’t like certain people so they just kill them and their children and still now we have violence and cruelty with wars and people that hate each other.
Introducing the option of Nevada having a lottery has been enticing for many. Although lotteries might provide extra revenue for school, when one takes a deeper look into the facts, everyone loses.
“The Lottery” was quite disturbing to read. It is an very unusual story that has an ending that will have you baffled. You will want to reread certain parts to see if there is anything thing that you could have missed. The title of the short story is also misleading. In most cases the lottery is a good thing. People don’t win punishment and lotteries don’t hurt them. But in this story it does just that. The author did a great job of telling how anyone and everyone can follow tradition blindly. It is dangerous not to have a mind of your own and to just follow the crowd even if you don’t understand on agree on why something is happening.
The lottery can take to sense of conformity to the extreme evil and violent level. No one take a stand to make a rational opinion about the lottery being an inhuman, pointless, and brutal event. Old Man Warner dismisses the idea of getting rid with the lottery, “there’s always been a lottery, he added petulantly” (Jackson par.32), even young children are involved and attend cheerfully such brutality, “the children had stones already”. To the people the idea of dismissing the lottery is inconceivable, because they are to conformist to break a
From the time the Europeans first landed on the Atlantic shore, lotteries have been a part of the American society. According to Will Spink, most states are currently operating a state lottery despite its bleak history in the U.S. (Spink 1). Since 1983, North Carolina has introduced lottery bills in the legislature every year (NC Christian 15). North Carolina Governor, Mike Easley, favors a lottery for increasing revenues for education (Analysis 2). However lucrative state lotteries appear on the surface, they create even more moral and financial difficulties for citizens, and this should encourage states to look at other means of resources instead of legalized gambling.
The lottery is something everyone wants to win no matter what the prize. People buy their tickets and await their fates. Some people win the lottery and many more lose. Losing the lottery causes something inside of us to die, but it is almost impossible to quit playing. The gambling becomes an addiction. The reason why people are constantly drawn to these lotteries is because deep down, the people who play them are convinced they can win.
It 's true that lottery money does go to into a special fund for education. But when it does, tax dollars get pulled out of education and spent elsewhere, in the end, the schools are no better off. In reality, most of the money from lottery revenues end up covering the cost of running a lottery. And no matter how much state lotteries try to convinced us that they do benefit schools, it is important to know that lottery revenues hardly make a difference in education and public